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The social costs of child abuse in Japan

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  • Wada, Ichiro
  • Igarashi, Ataru

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The present study calculates the social costs of child abuse in Japan. The items calculated included the direct costs of dealing with abuse and the indirect costs related to long-term damage from abuse during the fiscal year 2012 (April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2013). Based on previous studies on the social costs of child abuse and peripheral matters conducted in other countries, the present study created items for the estimable direct costs and indirect costs of child abuse, and calculated the cost of each item. Among indirect costs, future losses owing to child abuse were calculated using extra costs with a discount rate of 3%. The social cost of child abuse in Japan in the fiscal year 2012 was at least ¥1.6 trillion ($16 billion). The direct costs totaled ¥99 billion ($1 billion), and the indirect costs totaled ¥1.5 trillion ($15 billion). This sum of ¥1.6 trillion for only the year 2012 is almost equal to the total amount of damages of ¥1.9 trillion caused by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Fukushima Prefecture. Moreover, abuse is a serious problem that occurs every year and has recurring costs, unlike a natural calamity. However, Japan has no system for calculating the long-term effects of abuse. Therefore, owing to the scarcity of data, the calculations in the present study may underestimate the true costs.

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  • Wada, Ichiro & Igarashi, Ataru, 2014. "The social costs of child abuse in Japan," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 72-77.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:46:y:2014:i:c:p:72-77
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.08.002
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    1. Naruhisa Nakane & Ichiro Wada, 2022. "Estimating the Social Costs of Child Abuse in Residential Care for Children with Disabilities Using the Japanese Survey on the Interactions of Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences toward Adultho," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-9, December.
    2. Gabriella Conti & Elena Pizzo & Stephen Morris & Mariya Melnychuk, 2021. "The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(12), pages 3087-3105, December.
    3. McCarthy, Molly M. & Taylor, Penny & Norman, Rosana E. & Pezzullo, Lynne & Tucci, Joe & Goddard, Chris, 2016. "The lifetime economic and social costs of child maltreatment in Australia," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 217-226.
    4. Mayumi Kataoka & Daisuke Nishi, 2021. "Association between Work-Related Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Child Welfare Workers in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(7), pages 1-10, March.
    5. Honda, Hikaru & Kita, Toshiko & Hirano, Michiyo & Saeki, Kazuko, 2020. "A strategy to rescue mothers from isolated parenting: Development of the “social connectivity of mother with people in the community scale”," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    6. Yanagi, Yuriko & Takaoka, Kota, 2022. "How school staff hesitate to report child maltreatment in Japan: A process model of child protection, generated via grounded theory," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    7. Sachiko Kita & Kayoko Ochiai & Yoichi Sato & Saburo Akiyama & Mitsushiro Abe & Keiichi Tashita & Hiroko Tanaka & Fumiko Matsumoto & Shihoko Hayashi & Kosuke Kohashi & Keiichiro Tsujino & Kentaro Uchiy, 2023. "Development of the Training Program on Child Abuse Prevention for Citizens (TCAP-C) and Its Effects and Acceptability: Community-Based Participatory Research," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-16, January.

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