Facts and Figures: Impact
Apart from the financial loss, respondents to
BCS 2000 (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.htm)
experienced emotional reaction. For all vehicle-related theft, 83%
of respondents said they were affected emotionally. Of this, 46% of
victims said they were affected either very much or quite a lot.
Victims of thefts of vehicles were most affected.
Click here for a
table showing the emotional response of victims
BCS 2000 shows the net losses reported by victims
averaged:
Theft from vehicle: Property
£202
Damage £122
Theft of
vehicle: Vehicle £2,345
Other property £347
These costs may well be underestimates,
e.g. excluding indirect costs such as loss of earnings or the cost
of retrieving a vehicle from the police.
Other costs fall on:
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Insurers and policy holders
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Criminal justice system
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Business
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Other motorists taking extra security precautions
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Taxpayers (through lost revenue to the Exchequer)
The Home Office puts the costs of vehicle crime at over £3.5
billion a year, excluding hidden costs to business.
(LINK to be included - Analysis of costs and benefits)
Findings from BCS 2000 show that:
- one in five (21%) vehicle owners are 'very worried' about
having their vehicle stolen; 16% of vehicle owners are 'very
worried' about theft from their car
- men who are car owners are more worried about having their car
stolen or broken into than burglary, mugging/robbery and
stranger attack
- men and women in the 16-29 age are very worried about theft of
and from vehicles, with the greater worry in both cases with
theft of a vehicle. In all age groups, there is a greater
concern about theft of rather than theft from the vehicle.
See Home Office Research Findings No.83: Concern about Crime,
Findings from the 1998 BCS http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/r83.pdf
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