RT Article
T1 Respondent fatigue in estimates of the cost of white-collar crime: implications from willingness-to-pay surveys
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 31
IS 9
SP 1366
OP 1389
A1 Layana, M. Christina
A2 Lee, Jacqueline G.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767745796
AB Contingent valuation (CV) methods are used in many contexts to estimate non-tangible costs, despite some indications that they may not be reliable. In criminal justice, CV has been used to generate “costs of crime” for street, violent, and white-collar crimes. This article explores respondent fatigue using both quantitative and qualitative indicators from an open-ended CV survey where respondents were asked how much they would be willing to pay to reduce certain crimes. Our findings reveal that willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce crime increases when both problematic response patterns and fatigue effects are accounted for in the calculation, indicating that fatigued respondents who also engage in straight lining are driving the WTP estimates down. We conclude by discussing the implications of our results for policymakers and other consumers of CV studies.
K1 fatigue bias
K1 White-collar Crime
K1 Financial fraud
K1 Willingness-to-pay
DO 10.1177/0887403419900245