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ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2017

Lifetime Economic Burden of Rape Among U.S. Adults.

Cora Peterson, Sarah DeGue, Curtis Florence, Colby N Lokey

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Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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70 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Systematic Review of Per Person Violence Costs.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024
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  2. Costs attributable to criminal justice involvement in injuries: a systematic review.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2023
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  19. Perceptions of Multiple Perpetrator Rape in the Courtroom.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Cora PetersonNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Sarah DeGueNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Electronic address: hci2@cdc.gov.
Curtis FlorenceNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Colby N LokeyNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis study estimated the per-victim U.S. lifetime cost of rape.

methodsData from previous studies was combined with current administrative data and 2011 U.S. National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey data in a mathematical model. Rape was defined as any lifetime completed or attempted forced penetration or alcohol- or drug-facilitated penetration, measured among adults not currently institutionalized. Costs included attributable impaired health, lost productivity, and criminal justice costs from the societal perspective. Average age at first rape was assumed to be 18 years. Future costs were discounted by 3%. The main outcome measures were the average per-victim (female and male) and total population discounted lifetime cost of rape. Secondary outcome measures were marginal outcome probabilities among victims (e.g., suicide attempt) and perpetrators (e.g., incarceration) and associated costs. Analysis was conducted in 2016.

resultsThe estimated lifetime cost of rape was $122,461 per victim, or a population economic burden of nearly $3.1 trillion (2014 U.S. dollars) over victims' lifetimes, based on data indicating >25 million U.S. adults have been raped. This estimate included $1.2 trillion (39% of total) in medical costs; $1.6 trillion (52%) in lost work productivity among victims and perpetrators; $234 billion (8%) in criminal justice activities; and $36 billion (1%) in other costs, including victim property loss or damage. Government sources pay an estimated $1 trillion (32%) of the lifetime economic burden.

conclusionsPreventing sexual violence could avoid substantial costs for victims, perpetrators, healthcare payers, employers, and government payers. These findings can inform evaluations of interventions to reduce sexual violence.

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Intimate Partner ViolenceFemaleHealth Care CostsHumansMaleModels, TheoreticalRapeSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited States

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PMCPMC5438753

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