New Faces in a New Place: Long-Time Residents’ Perceptions of New Residents in an Oil Boomtown in the Bakken Oil Shale Region

Huynh, Carol; Robinson, Chloe; Mrozla, Thomas; Dahle, Thorvald O.; Archbold, Carol A.; Marcel, Alexandra

doi:10.1080/01639625.2018.1456689

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“…This social isolation can be attributed to several conditions occurring in boomtowns. Newcomers, for example, are not always accepted by long-term community residents who can be dismissive, antagonistic, or hostile as they see temporary residents as reducing their quality of life and disrupting their ways of life (Huynh et al, 2019;O'Connor, 2015). Ruddell (2011) reports that newcomers are sometimes given stigmatizing labels such as rig pigs, gas-holes, and oilfield trash.…”

Section: Social Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A perfect storm: Violence toward women in the Bakken oil patch

Ruddell¹,

Britto²

2020

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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Communities in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota that experienced a resourcebased boom starting in the mid-2000s had significant increases in the volume and seriousness of violence toward women. We identify five community factors distinctive to these boomtowns that created a perfect storm where these crimes proliferated including: (a) precarious housing arrangements; (b) the social isolation of women; (c) lack of domestic violence shelters and other social supports for survivors; (d) a workplace culture in the oilfields supportive of substance abuse and hyper-masculinity, and; (e) the inability of boomtown justice systems to respond to these crimes in an effective or timely manner. Although this critical analysis describes the outcomes in a U.S. jurisdiction, the conditions in rapid growth communities are similar throughout the globe and we suggest these community factors be considered in the responses to domestic and intimate partner violence in these rural areas. Our goal in identifying these factors is to work toward the development of an intervention model for officials anticipating resourcebased booms to mitigate this violence.

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Section: Social Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A perfect storm: Violence toward women in the Bakken oil patch

Ruddell¹,

Britto²

2020

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…This lack of informal and formal controls is often found to lead to crime, disorder, and quality of life issues in boomtowns (Ruddell and Ortiz 2015; Ruddell 2017; Rhubart and Brasier 2019). These issues become major causes for concern amongst boomtown residents as newcomers are perceived as outsiders and potential troublemakers (Archbold 2015; O'Connor 2015; Huynh et al 2019). Given the nature of oil and gas extraction work, migrants to boomtown communities are often single young men, making large incomes, and looking to “blow off steam” during their downtimes from work (Amnesty International 2016; Charman 2019).…”

Section: Crime and Disorder In Boom Communitiesmentioning

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After the downturn: Perceptions of crime and policing in the southeastern Saskatchewan oil patch

O’Connor

Ruddell²

2021

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The relationship between crime and the rapid growth and industrialization associated with resource‐based booms in large boomtowns is well‐documented. This study focuses on changes in police‐reported crime and perceptions of crime and disorder in a region experiencing a mini‐boom after the boom subsides. Analyses of survey results of 1,336 respondents living in oil‐impacted and non‐impacted communities in southeastern Saskatchewan reveal several noteworthy differences between these two groups. Inconsistent with prior research, respondents in the oil‐impacted region were less fearful of being victimized than their counterparts in non‐impacted communities and did not believe that a lack of law enforcement was a problem. Our analyses also revealed that the economic downturn after oil prices and production plunged was associated with significant decreases in rates of reported crime, crime severity, and traffic collisions. Implications for establishing a more comprehensive theory of the boom‐crime relationship and future research are discussed.

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New Faces in a New Place: Long-Time Residents’ Perceptions of New Residents in an Oil Boomtown in the Bakken Oil Shale Region

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

A perfect storm: Violence toward women in the Bakken oil patch

A perfect storm: Violence toward women in the Bakken oil patch

After the downturn: Perceptions of crime and policing in the southeastern Saskatchewan oil patch

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