Paying for Violence: Some of the Costs of Violence Against Women in B.C.

This 1996 report, produced for the Ministry of Women’s Equality by Richard Kerr and Janice Mclean, outlines some of the economic costs of violence against women in British Columbia, including criminal injury compensation, income assistance, transition houses, loss of work time, mental health care, and more. The report emphasizes that many costs, including intergenerational ones, have yet to be accounted for, while others are unquantifiable in economic terms.