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decline of unions increases burglaries and theft

The decline in union membership in the United States from 1993 to 2006, and the consequent loss of well-paying blue-collar jobs, increased property crime by 15%, according to an analysis by Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross. Moreover, each 1-percentage-point decrease in unionization increases burglaries, larceny, arson, and auto theft by roughly 140 crimes per 100,000 people. Well-paying jobs deter crime by increasing a criminal’s potential cost of spending time in prison. The proportion of unionized workers declined from 23.5% in 1973 to 12.4% in 2008.