Civil RICO's damages provision is mandatory, not discretionary: once a plaintiff proves injury to business or property proximately caused by a RICO violation, the statute requires the court to treble the proven compensatory damages figure. This automatic multiplier is what makes civil RICO claims attractive to plaintiffs even where the underlying predicate conduct might otherwise support a smaller ordinary tort or fraud claim.

Trebling applies only to damages actually proven and only to injury to business or property — RICO does not compensate personal injury damages. Courts still require the plaintiff to establish the compensatory base amount with the same rigor as any other damages claim before that figure is multiplied; trebling amplifies a proven number rather than substituting for proof.

A Juricratic simulation applies the treble multiplier only after the underlying compensatory damages-model dial has been populated with a defensible figure, so the simulated exposure reflects proof-quality risk in the base damages calculation, not just the multiplier's mechanical effect.

Plaintiff's counsel builds a rigorous compensatory damages record — since that figure will be multiplied threefold — while defense counsel focuses heavily on undermining the base damages proof, given how much a modest reduction in the underlying figure compounds once trebled.