{"id":83,"date":"2008-04-06T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/04\/06\/meat-and-crime\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:18:47","slug":"meat-and-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/04\/06\/meat-and-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat and Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/04\/12200621_740d218a53_m.jpg\" alt=\"12200621_740d218a53_m.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>In a new editorial from the <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/freakonomics\/\">Freakonomics<\/a> bloggers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/03\/do-hamburgers-cause-crime\/\">New York Times<\/a> asks, &#8220;Do Hamburgers Cause Crime?&#8221; A <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1016401\">new paper<\/a> from Jennifer Dillard of the Georgetown Law School investigates the effects of lengthy employment on the &#8216;kill floor&#8217; of slaughterhouses to a dramatic increase in the risk of psychological problems, like post traumatic stress disorder. Dillard argues that from a legal standpoint, these workers should be compensated under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Administration\">O.S.H.A.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their discussion of Dillard&#8217;s new work, the Freakonomics blog authors also highlight sociologist Amy Fitzgerald&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p_mla_apa_research_citation\/1\/8\/3\/0\/1\/p183018_index.html?phpsessid=9e112299db559e6235a9659d4d7399ce\">paper<\/a> which concludes that communities with slaughterhouses experience a &#8216;spill-over&#8217; effect from this type of work, resulting in much higher rates of violent crime than other communities with similar demographic characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new editorial from the Freakonomics bloggers at the New York Times asks, &#8220;Do Hamburgers Cause Crime?&#8221; A new paper from Jennifer Dillard of the Georgetown Law School investigates the effects of lengthy employment on the &#8216;kill floor&#8217; of slaughterhouses to a dramatic increase in the risk of psychological problems, like post traumatic stress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,39112,131,76],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-economy","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}