Patrick Sharkey
Patrick Sharkey is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author, most recently, of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence.
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Jon Lowenstein / NOOR / Redux The Crime Spike Is No Mystery
By zooming out and looking at the big picture, the question of what causes violence becomes quite answerable.
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Getty / The Atlantic To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space
Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
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Russell Lee / Library of Congress The Destructive Legacy of Housing Segregation
Less visible than the rise of income inequality in America is its impact in shaping the country’s urban neighborhoods. Two books—by Matthew Desmond and Mitchell Duneier—could help change that.
