RT Article
T1 Victim compensation policy and white‐collar crime: public preferences in a national willingness‐to‐pay survey
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 17
IS 3
SP 553
OP 594
A1 Galvin, Miranda A.
A2 Loughran, Thomas A.
A2 Simpson, Sally S. 1954-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1584798491
AB We use survey data from a nationally representative sample to explore public support for taxpayer‐funded victim compensation programs for financial fraud, consumer fraud, identity theft, and burglary. We use contingent valuation (willingness‐to‐pay) methodology to infer preferences for compensation programs and explore predictors of those preferences. Overall, our findings reveal that the public strongly supports the implementation of victim compensation programs. Our results also indicate, however, that this support may be driven in part by perceptions of benefiting from this program directly in the future. Additionally, a small but notable minority of respondents exhibit preferences for programs without compensation.
K1 Victim compensation
K1 Public preferences
K1 Willingness to pay
K1 White-collar crime
K1 Fraud
K1 Wirtschaftskriminalität
K1 Betrug
K1 Weiße Kragenkriminalität
K1 Opferentschädigung
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12379