OREANDA-NEWS  The researchers estimated how much money crime victims need on average to compensate for a traumatic experience.

In terms of the whole country, such an indirect "price" in 2021 amounted to 1.3% of GDP or 135.2 thousand rubles. — it is necessary to increase the annual income of the victim by so much in order to return life satisfaction to the level as if there had been no crime.

This assessment was published by researchers from the European University of St. Petersburg in the article "The costs of Russian society from crime", published in the journal "Applied Econometrics".

The survey involved 3 thousand victims of crimes and 11.4 thousand people who had no such experience.