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NCJ Number:	182187

Title:	Social and Economic Costs of Domestic Violence: Chile and Nicaragua (From Too Close to Home: Violence in the Americas, P 51-80, 1999, Andrew R. Morrison and Maria L. Biehl, eds. -- See NCJ-182184)

Author(s):	Andrew R. Morrison; Maria B. Orlando

Date Published:	1999

Page Count:	30

Sponsoring Agency:	Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, MD 21218-4319

Sale Source:	Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University 2715 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218-4319 United States of America

Type:	Issue Overview

Format:	Book (Softbound)

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This study examines the social and economic costs of domestic violence in Chile and Nicaragua.

Abstract:	Domestic violence has many costs, both to the women who suffer the abuse and to their societies. In addition to emotional anguish, abused women may suffer severe physical injury, mental illness and increased incidence of suicide and homicide. The economic costs to society include the value of goods and services not produced when abuse leads to increased absenteeism, decreased productivity while on the job and job loss. Domestic violence may also affect children in at least three important ways: their health, their educational performance and their use of violent conduct in their own relationships. The study did not include all the social and economic costs of domestic violence. It did not quantify the costs imposed on the judicial and police systems, the costs of providing counseling to abused women or the costs of operating women’s shelters. Although it did calculate lost earnings for working women, it did not calculate lost earnings due to the premature deaths of women killed by their male partners. Tables, appendixes, notes, references

Main Term(s):	Victims of Crime

Index Term(s):	Abused women; Chile; Crime costs; Domestic assault; Medical costs; Mental health services; Nicaragua; Social work; Victim counseling



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