It is impossible to assess the economic toll of sexual violence. Victims pay for sexual violence out of their own pockets, and the public pays through provision of services to victims and their significant others. Public and private funds are spent on crisis services, medical treatment, and the criminal justice responses. Workdays are lost because of injury and illness. Businesses lose money through employee absences and sexual harassment suits. The cost for offenders' incarceration, probation, treatment and other offender services adds to the total cost of sexual assault.

Documents

• Economic Cost Overview - 2020
  
• Vermont report on cost of sexual assault per victim - 2021
• Economic Costs of Rape in United States - 2017
• Costs and Consequences of Sexual Violence - NAESV 2011
• Iowa report on cost of sexual assault per victim -- 2009
• Minnesota report on cost of sexual assault per victim - 2007