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Fitzgerald, Amy. "Spill-Over from 'The Jungle' into the Larger Community: Slaughterhouses and Increased Crime Rates" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183018_index.html>

Fitzgerald, A. J. , 2007-08-11 "Spill-Over from 'The Jungle' into the Larger Community: Slaughterhouses and Increased Crime Rates" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183018_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In his now infamous book, Upton Sinclair referred to the massive slaughterhouse complex in Chicago as The Jungle (1906). One hundred years later studies are beginning to document the negative effects of large slaughterhouses moving into rural areas in the United States. Of these effects, dramatic increases in crime rates have been the least readily explainable. The increases in crime have been theorized as being linked to the demographic characteristics of the workers, social disorganization in the communities, and increased unemployment rates. While discussed theoretically, none of these explanations have been empirically tested. Further, none of the literature to date has addressed the possibility of a link between the increased crime rates observed and the violent work conducted in slaughterhouses. The purpose of this study is to begin to fill these gaps. To do so this study utilizes data from six secondary sources obtained for all of the non-metropolitan counties in states in the US with ‘right-to-work’ laws (a total of 581 counties) annually from 1994 through 2002. Pooled time-series cross-section techniques are used to analyze the data using both ordinary least squares and negative binomial regression. The findings suggest unique effects of slaughterhouse employment levels on certain types of crime (controlling for several key variables and compared to other types of industry).

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