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Drug Abuse Caused Crime means as noted in National Drug Strategy  "The costs of smoking, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05 - Summary Report" that the aggregate cost of crime attributable to alcohol and illicit drug abuse in '04/'05 was $7.1023b ($1,735.9 alcohol + $3,970.6 illicit drug + $1,395.8 attributable to both).

 

Below are contributors to these costs:

  1. Policing

  2. Criminal courts

  3. Prisons

  4. Customs

  5. National Crime Authority

  6. Forgone productivity of criminals

  7. Private security services and home security

  8. Property theft and damage

  9. Administration of insurance against property theft and damage

  10. Violence

  11. Money laundering

  12. Legal expenses

  13. Under-reporting of crime

"Estimation of drug-attributable crime costs" - notes "5.3 Types of costs" qualifies in the final category "Under-reporting of crime" that:

"It can be asserted with a high degree of confidence that the estimates of the social costs of drug-attributable crime presented (above) are underestimates of the "true" costs of such crime.  Apart from the conservative estimation techniques adopted in the research for this paper, the major reason for this confident assertion is evidence that much crime is not reported to the police."