Read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Batterer-Psychological-Profile-Donald-Dutton/dp/0465033881
Short and to the point.
> To give preference for something like that would monetize it and perpetrators would glorify it even further.
I don't understand that. From a LEGAL perspective, and we are a nation of laws, we monetize abuse and harm ALL THE TIME. Yes, we put people in prison for wrongdoing, but we also fine them for lesser crimes.
Our whole legal system is built on money, just like our economic system is. You and I and everyone here, we all have a $ signs stamped on us whether we like it or not.
Warren Buffet is worth billions. He's got a huge $ stamped on him.
Me, I'm worth far, far less. I don't even earn what his secretary earns. A ship is sinking and the life-raft can only fit one more person. It's a choice between me and Mr. Buffet. FOR SURE the other passengers are going to leave me behind and take Mr. Buffet because of the giant $ on his forehead.
I hate to tell you this, but that's the truth. We are all already QUANTIFIED. We all have a value placed on us by retailers, but also, in many cases, by our governments.
Anyway, since we are all already quantified, we have a credit score, a net worth, in many cases employers see us as having a "maximum wage" based on the wages we've earned in the past, all I'm saying is, why not help victims of DV and sexual assault by quantifying that harm too?
Don't ask me how it could be done. I am not a social scientist or statistician.
But consider this: In many cases, the abusers get away with their deeds. Many times they are not reported, or the full extent of their crimes are never recorded. Many victims of DV put up with it for years before calling police or seeing a counselor. They have not written down every incident, or taken photos of every bruise.
In the meantime, THE ABUSER KEEPS ON WORKING! I'm going to say he, because it's usually men who are the perpetrators of DV, he keeps on working, getting raises, keeps his connections in the workplace. HE doesn't suffer any career harm at all.
It is usually just his victim(s) who are the basket cases. He compartmentalizes his life so he's fine at work. It's only at home that he can't handle conflict. (I read this book recently, about half of it, and the author described this very well. https://www.amazon.com/Batterer-Psychological-Profile-Donald-Dutton/dp/0465033881)
So he goes on the career track, doing fine, and she's a mess. If she had written down every single incident of abuse, and taken him to court, and won her case, the court would punish him and that's supposed to give her some justice.
But since that hardly ever happens, the legal system hardly ever imprisons batterers, there is very little justice for DV survivors.
Nevertheless, even after leaving the bad relationship, they carry the scars, scars not only in their minds, but in their career lives and earnings also. Missed work days coping with the craziness, low self-esteem so they won't even try to get a better job, or needed degrees because they're sure they can't do anything right, and maybe even problems handling the personality complexities in the workplace because maybe their perpetrator has left them with a deep mistrust of all men?
I'm not saying that's true of all DV survivors, but I'm sure it's true of many. They don't trust men, and yet, to get ahead in the workplace, they have to deal with them, learn how to speak to them so they can take her seriously, and, in many cases, have to learn how to fend off flirtations at work.
Do you see how the DV survivor is starting way back behind the starting line in the Career Race? Her un-abused female peers trust men, have maybe even learned to speak to them so they can hear her from having good relationships with her dad, brothers, and emotionally healthy boyfriends. She is starting at the starting line, with everyone else.
Don't kid yourself. We attempt to quantify justice all the time in this nation. It's not always successful, but we do try.