Examining public willingness-to-pay for burglary prevention

Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

“…To our knowledge, this study provides the first estimate in the United States for how much people are willing to pay to improve the brightness of street lighting with the goal of improving public safety. While other research evaluates people's willingness to pay to reduce crime broadly, such studies typically ask survey respondents about unnamed programs that would reduce crime by a certain amount (Ludwig and Cook 2001;Cohen et al 2004;Loomes 2007;Bishop and Murphy 2011;Cohen 2015;Stickle 2015;Baker et al 2016;Brenig and Proeger 2018;Piquero and Steinberg 2010;Lee and Fisher 2020). 15 Perhaps surprisingly the approach has rarely been used in the CPTED literature.…”

Crime Costs to the Public in Hong Kong

“…As such, this tripartite estimation captures both tangible and intangible costs due to suffering and fear (Cohen 1990;Wickramasekera et al 2015). The estimation of the intangible cost is an advantage over the bottom-up approach (Stickle 2015). Moreover, the tripartite estimation is a kind of disaggregated estimation to give more detail to enhance the validity of the total cost estimation (Piquero et al 2011).…”

“…An additional problem of contingent valuation is its unrealistic estimation of the altruistic cost for the public rather than the personal crime cost (Picasso et al 2019). Accordingly, the public is more likely self-interested to estimate personal costs than altruistic to estimate costs to all people (Loomes 2007;Stickle 2015). Contingent valuation of the program is also problematic when the program is beneficial not just to crime reduction (Stickle 2015).…”

“…Accordingly, the public is more likely self-interested to estimate personal costs than altruistic to estimate costs to all people (Loomes 2007;Stickle 2015). Contingent valuation of the program is also problematic when the program is beneficial not just to crime reduction (Stickle 2015). Hence, the tripartite willingness-to-pay estimation is advantageous in its personal interest, reality and familiarity.…”

“…Meanwhile, the five crimes were illicit drug possession, burglary, assault, rape and lastly crime in general. The four specific crimes have been popularly known and typical in cost estimation (Byrnes et al 2012;Ostermann et al 2016;Picasso et al 2019;Stickle 2015). Essentially, the interviewer introduced the condition for each citizen's need to get or borrow money to pay for expenses due to a crime when the government no longer covered the expenses.…”