Publication

This report presents a newly developed methodology to quantify the cost of violence and the economic gains associated with peace for the US economy. All expenditure that is related to violence containment, whether performed by the military on the international stage or domestically through the provision of services to fight crime, has been classified together as the Violence Containment Industry or alternately, as violence containment spending. Given the size of its defense and associated homeland security spending, the final size of the violence containment industry (VCI) in the US is likely higher than other developed nations.