Unpacking the Great American Crime Decline

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 1, 2018

Patrick Sharkey, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University, scientific director of Crime Lab New York, and the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) talks about how violent crime fell in American cities and what lies ahead.

Patrick Sharkey will be appearing at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch at 6:30 p.m. on February 7. Get tickets to the free event here.

You can also hear him talk about his book at the 92nd Street Y at 12:00 p.m. on March 12. More details here.

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