1. Societal Cost of Discrimination
Tyler Ballweg
Goal of the project is to quantify the cost, in dollars, that all types discrimination has on society. Given the scope, I don’t have one number, but I will present some of the progress I made this semester.

2. How to quantify cost of discrimination?

3. Societal cost of crime
McCollister et al. (2010)-Cost-per-crime of 7 crime types
Murder-$8,982,907
Rape/sexual assault-$240,776
Robbery-$42,310
Motor vehicle theft-$10,772
Household burglary-$6,462
Theft-$3,532

4. Hate crime statistics (2007-2011)
Sandholtz et al. (2013) using NCVS
Average annual hate crimes: 261,000
3% rape/sexual assaults
8% robbery
19% aggravated assault
62% simple assault
2% burglary
6% theft
Uses data from the NCVS-administered by BJS to people 12 years and older about hate crimes they have experienced
Simple assault not included in the cost estimate on the next slide because it was not quantified by McCollister et al. (2010). They said it was too difficult to quantify the cost of simple assault. “simple assault” encompasses any attempted or completed physical contact with malicious intent.
Our murder data is also poor-there were an average of 7 hate based murders each year from
So given that not all crimes were quantified and we don’t have simple assaults, and it’s impossible to quantify every possible cost, the number we have on next slide may be underreported.

5. $ 9,319,915,482
9 billion dollars

6. Next steps Quantify additional impacts of discrimination
Explore other research methodologies
Turner (see article in Mendeley) looked at the earnings differential between people of color and non-hispanic white people-Turner says this gap includes disparities in a number of different areas-makes me wonder if this is a more efficient way to calculate the societal cost of discrimination. Like maybe there is some metric, like earnings, which encompasses many different impacts of discrimination on society.