The Criminal Justice Research Center is pleased to announce that the 34th Annual Reckless Memorial Lecture speaker will be Dr. Patrick Sharkey. Dr. Sharkey is the William S Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He completed his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2007, and taught at New York University for nine years before arriving at Princeton. Sharkey’s research focuses on urban inequality, violence, and public policy.
Abstract: In his book Uneasy Peace, Patrick Sharkey argued that the long-term drop in violence beginning in the 1990s had enormous benefits that were felt most powerfully in the nation's most disadvantaged communities--but he also argued that the decline in violence was fragile and incomplete. Now that the nation has gone through another period of rising, then falling, violence, Sharkey will revisit the arguments from his book and draw new lessons for how to understand long-term and short-term trends in violence in the United States.
Bio: Patrick Sharkey is the William S Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. His research centers on the challenges created by urban inequality, with a particular focus on community violence. Sharkey leads the Violence and Inequality Project at Princeton, a multidisciplinary effort to build a research infrastructure more useful to policymakers and community organizations working to confront violence. His research has been recognized with multiple awards, and Sharkey was recently named as one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers for 2021 by Prospect Magazine. His most recent book is titled Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, The Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence.
Doors will open at 3:30. The event will be in person and will be held at the Barrister Club, 25 W 11th, Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43201. Food and beverages will be served. Ample parking is available at the Gateway Garage just off of High Street as well as the Union Garages on High Street next to the Student Union. Please RSVP via email to: yanai.7@osu.edu by March 24, 2025.
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