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Aim Health economic evaluations conducted from a societal perspective currently do not consider inter-sectoral unit costs (UC) of the German Criminal Justice Sector.Methods UCwere calculated according to the pre-defined measurement parameters from the PECUNIA questionnaire by means of literature and internet research, or direct correspondence with the institution. If UC could not be identified, proxies were used.Results UC were calculated for police, fire brigade, vandalism, prison, police custody, simple and serious theft, minor and serious vandalism of real estate, and legal fees in court.Conclusion The lack of UC for services in the criminal justice sector in Germany makes this work important for health economic evaluations from a societal perspective. The usability of the developed UC outside of health economics, such as forensic psychiatry, emphasizes the relevance of this work.

Due to currently lacking internationally comparable measurement and valuation methods for costs and benefits of interventions in mental health care that spill over to sectors outside the health care sector, such as the education and the criminal justice system, Work Package (WP) 2of the ProgrammE in Costing, resource use measurement and outcome valuation for Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions (PECUNIA, 2018-2021) focuses on the development of these methods. The first aim of WP2was to establish harmonisedservice lists and and/or resource descriptions for the six participating PECUNIA countries (Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom) for mental disorders. Further, a standardized module for a multi-sectoral service and resource-use measurement (RUM) instrument was to be developed ensuring cross-country comparability and transferability. In line with the final objective of WP2, based on the identified services and their descriptions and compatible with the developed RUM instrument (Horizontal Activities 1-3, HAs1-3), standardized costing templates for criminal justice and education were to be developed in accordance with HA4 (‘Valuation’), corresponding to Deliverable 2.4. This Deliverable 2.4 report presents the activities and results related to the final objective of WP2, i.e. the development of standardized unit cost templates for the criminal justice and education sectors by the Maastricht University (Care and Public Health Research Institute) until December 2019. Suggested citation: Drost R, Evers S, Janssen L, Paulus A, Pokhilenko I, on behalf of the PECUNIA Group (2019): Standardised costing template for selected costing approaches: criminal justice and education. Deliverable D2.4: PECUNIA project. Maastricht University, Netherlands.DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4455364 For further information, please contact secretariaat-caphri@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Due to currently lacking internationally comparable measurement and valuation methods for costs and benefits of interventions in mental health care that spill over to sectors outside the health care sector, such as the education and the criminal justice system, Work Package (WP) 2 of the ProgrammE in Costing, resource use measurement and outcome valuation for Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions (PECUNIA, 2018-2021) focuses on the development of these methods. The first aim of WP2 was to establish harmonised service lists and and/or resource descriptions for the six participating PECUNIA countries (Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom) for mental disorders. Further, a standardized module for a multi-sectoral service and resource-use measurement (RUM) instrument was to be developed ensuring cross-country comparability and transferability. In line with the final objective of WP2, based on the identified services and their descriptions and compatible with the developed RUM instrument (Horizontal Activities 1-3, HAs1-3), standardized costing templates for criminal justice and education were to be developed in accordance with HA4 (‘Valuation’), corresponding to Deliverable 2.4. This Deliverable 2.4 report presents the activities and results related to the final objective of WP2, i.e. the development of standardized unit cost templates for the criminal justice and education sectors by the Maastricht University (Care and Public Health Research Institute) until December 2019. Suggested citation: Drost R, Evers S, Janssen L, Paulus A, Pokhilenko I, on behalf of the PECUNIA Group (2019): Standardised costing template for selected costing approaches: criminal justice and education. Deliverable D2.4: PECUNIA project. Maastricht University, Netherlands. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4455364 For further information, please contact secretariaat-caphri@maastrichtuniversity.nl