PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cornaglia, Francesca
AU  - Feldman, Naomi E.
AU  - Leigh, Andrew
TI  - Crime and Mental Well-Being
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.49.1.110
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 110--140
VI  - 49
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/1/110.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/1/110.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2014 Jan 01; 49
AB  - We provide empirical evidence of crime’s impact on the mental well-being of both victims and nonvictims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental well-being after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental well-being of nonvictims. Property crime victimization and property crime rates show no such comparable impact. Finally, we estimate that society-wide impact of increasing the crime rate by one victim is about 80 times more than the direct impact on the victim.