Assessing the Status of Crime Cost Measures: A case study of delinquents of fraud, robbery and intentional assault

The purpose of this study was to investigate the formal and informal costs of crime by descriptive survey method. The statistical population of this study is convicted of robbery, fraud and intentional assault and release from prison in 1989. Using the available sampling method, 150 individuals were selected as the final sample size. Data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content and face validity were confirmed by the opinions of three experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.81. After explaining the demographic data, frequency distribution and percentage of questions answered, multivariate analysis of variance and t-test were used for data analysis and Tukey test was used to determine the differences between groups. According to the findings of this study, investigation of official and informal crime costs in thieves is more than thieves and in thieves more than the perpetrators of deliberate beatings. Also, when assessing formal and informal costs, in general, fraudsters pay close attention to both types of costs, thieves emphasize informal costs more than formal costs, and perpetrators of deliberate assault and crime pay little attention to official and social costs. The reason for the discrepancy in the assessment of crime costs is due to the forensic nature of the crime, that is, the fraudsters as white collar criminals knowingly commit the crime, and the perpetrators of deliberate assault and intentional assault as the blue collar criminals, committing crimes.