{"id":402,"date":"2008-04-10T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/10\/killin-floor\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:07:08","slug":"killin-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/10\/killin-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"killin’ floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>i’ve had little time online or elsewhere the past few weeks, as i’ve struggled to keep pace with chair \/ editor \/ teacher \/ scholar \/ father duties. one story that caught my eye, however, came via amelia at the crawler<\/a>. apparently, slaughterhouse workers on the killing floor<\/a> exhibit relatively high rates of post-traumatic stress. similarly, communities with slaughterhouses exhibit relatively high rates of violent crime.<\/p>\n

i haven’t assessed the researchers’ causal claims, but the finding fits my experience growing up around the south st. paul stockyards<\/a> and nearby processing plants. i knew a few shell-shocked former cattle-killers who ran screaming to minimum-wage restaurant jobs at a fraction of their former pay. i remember one tough-guy cook whose probation officer set him up in some kind of full-time throat-slitting or bludgeoning job. <\/em>it was a good job, he said, but he just couldn’t cut it.<\/p>\n

the story is timely, since tomorrow marks south st. paul’s last cattle auction<\/a>. it was evidently the world’s busiest livestock market when i was growing up, but the yards have been empty for years. i wonder whether south st. paul is becoming significantly less stressful or violent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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