The Slaughterhouse, Social Disorganization, and Violent Crime in Rural Communities

Scholars of non-human animal research and criminology believe that more attention should be paid to socially-recognized violence, ie violence of industrial food production by animals. The slaughterhouse and the communities surrounding these facilities are ideal places to investigate how the violence at slaughterhouse by nonhuman animals affects individuals and society. The main research topic involved in this study is whether the presence of slaughterhouse in rural areas will affect the incidence of violent crime and the impact of these facilities on the social collapse of society. A previous study on the slaughter community has revealed a correlation between employment of slaughter and violent crime. The study investigated the relationship between the existence of community slaughterhouse and violent crime rate.

After more than 100 years since Upton Sinclair condemned the massacre of Chicago as a "jungle", in qualitative case studies many negative effects of the slaughterhouse on workers and the community were recorded . Among the social problems observed in these communities, the increase in the crime rate is particularly important. These increases are, in theory, related to the demographic characteristics of workers, the social collapse of the community, and the rise in the unemployment rate. However, these descriptions have not been verified empirically and do not mention the possibility of association between the rise in the crime rate and the violent work in the meat processing industry.