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Gender-Specific Burden of the Economic Cost of Victimization: A Global Analysis

Gender-Specific Burden of the Economic Cost of Victimization: A Global Analysis

Samuel Kolawole Olowe
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781799811121|ISBN10: 1799811123|EISBN13: 9781799811145
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1112-1.ch012
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Olowe, Samuel Kolawole. "Gender-Specific Burden of the Economic Cost of Victimization: A Global Analysis." Global Perspectives on Victimization Analysis and Prevention, edited by Johnson Oluwole Ayodele, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 208-223. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1112-1.ch012

APA

Olowe, S. K. (2020). Gender-Specific Burden of the Economic Cost of Victimization: A Global Analysis. In J. Ayodele (Ed.), Global Perspectives on Victimization Analysis and Prevention (pp. 208-223). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1112-1.ch012

Chicago

Olowe, Samuel Kolawole. "Gender-Specific Burden of the Economic Cost of Victimization: A Global Analysis." In Global Perspectives on Victimization Analysis and Prevention, edited by Johnson Oluwole Ayodele, 208-223. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1112-1.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter explores the impact of specific burden of the economic cost of victimization on gender. Gender-related victimization is disproportionately concentrated on women and girls. Forms include sexual assaults, intimate-partner violence, incest, genital mutilation, homicide, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and other sexual offences. Costs of violence against women are widespread throughout society. Every recognizable effect of violence has a cost whether it is direct or indirect. Direct costs come from the use of goods and services for which a monetary exchange is made. Direct costs exist for capital, labour, and material inputs. Indirect costs stem from effects of violence against women that have an imputed monetary exchange, such as lost income or reduced profit. Effects of violence against women also include intangible costs such as premature death and pain and suffering for which there is no imputed monetary value in the economy.

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