Russian economists from the European University in St. Petersburg calculated for the first time the “price” of crime in the country in the article “The costs of crime in Russian society: measurement using compensatory changes in income”. According to them, due to criminal acts, the country lost 1.75 trillion rubles in 2021, it writes. red blood cell.
Thus, the damage was equal to 1.3% of the state’s GDP. In their assessment, they drew on data on how much money crime victims need to compensate for the negative experience.
Experts said that a crime can be estimated at an average of 135.2 thousand rubles. This is the amount needed to increase the victim’s annual income so that he or she feels the same satisfaction with life as if no crime had been committed against him.
Therefore, according to the research, 10.9% of the country’s population sees themselves as victims of crime.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the college of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reportedthat a quarter of all crimes are crimes using IT technologies.