Domestic Violence Costs California About $73 Billion Annually, Study Finds

A new study has revealed the immense economic toll of domestic violence in California, highlighting billions of dollars in costs that significantly burden survivors and taxpayers throughout the state. The study by Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute and the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California–San Diego found that domestic violence cost the state $73.7 billion in 2022. These costs—about $88,000 per victim—included health care payments, lost productivity and income, and expenses related to criminal justice and response programs, the report said. “Too often, states do not recognize the economic as well as social and health costs resulting from intimate partner violence for survivors, families of victims and the state as a whole,” said Anita Raj, executive director of the Newcomb Institute and lead author of the report, in a June 4 press release....