Patrick Sharkey
{{Short description|American sociologist and criminologist (born c. 1977)}}
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|birth_date = {{circa|{{birth year and age |1977}}}}
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|discipline = Sociology, urban sociology, criminology
|education = Brown University (BA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
|academic_advisors = Robert J. Sampson
William Julius Wilson
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Patrick Sharkey (born {{circa|1977}}) is an American urban sociologist and criminologist. He has been Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University since 2019.{{cite web|title=Patrick Sharkey|url=https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/patrick-sharkey|website=Princeton University Department of Sociology|access-date=18 June 2020}} He was formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University,{{cite web|last1=Sharkey|first1=Patrick |title=NYU Dept of Sociology|url=http://sociology.as.nyu.edu/object/patricksharkey.html|website=NYU Dept of Sociology}} with an affiliation at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.{{cite web|last1=Sharkey|first1=Patrick|title=NYU Wagner|url=http://wagner.nyu.edu/sharkey}}
Sharkey's research focuses on crime, policing, and public safety.{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Paul |date=2018-06-22 |title=Falling Crime Rates Are Good — at a Cost. A Writer Sees Both Sides. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/books/review/uneasy-peace-patrick-sharkey.html |access-date=2022-03-26 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Badger |first=Emily |date=2017-11-09 |title=The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html |access-date=2022-03-26 |issn=0362-4331}} He leads Americanviolence.org—a project which maps fatal shootings in the United States.{{Cite web |date=2018-08-13 |title=A New Data Tool Chronicles the Shifting Murder Rates of American Cities |url=https://www.thetrace.org/2018/08/american-violence-murder-rates-u-s-cities/ |access-date=2022-03-26 |website=The Trace |language=en-us}}
Education
Sharkey earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University.{{Cite web |last=Sharkey |first=Patrick |date=Nov 3, 2015 |title=Patrick Sharkey CV |url=https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/CV_sharkey.pdf}}
Work
Sharkey studies neighborhood effects, crime, and violence in the United States.
Sharkey is the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, The Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence,{{cite web|title=Patrick Sharkey|url=https://patricksharkey.net}} published in 2018 by W.W. Norton. The book focuses on how the decline of violent crime has affected urban life and urban inequality in America. His first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality, was published in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press.{{cite book|last1=Sharkey|first1=Patrick|title=Stuck in Place Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality|date=2013|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=9780226924267}}
Sharkey is the Scientific Director for Crime Lab New York City.{{cite web|title=University of Chicago|url=https://crimelab.uchicago.edu/page/people|website=Crime Lab NYC}} He was previously the Director for the Institute for Human Development and Social Change at New York University,{{cite web|title=Steinhardt|url=http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/iesp/people|website=The Institute for Education and Social Policy}} a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia University from 2007 to 2009,{{cite web|last1=Sharkey|first1=Pat|title=RWJF Health and Society Scholar|url=http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/1822/16821/2509|website=Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar}} and a research assistant at the Urban Institute{{cite web|title=Urban Institute|url=http://www.urban.org/|website=Urban Institute}} in Washington D.C. Labor and Social Policy Center from 2000 to 2002.
Awards
Sharkey received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award{{cite web|title=William Julius Wilson Award|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/inequality_past_recipients.cfm|website=American Sociological Association}} given by the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association in 2015. In 2010, he received the Roger Gould Prize{{cite web|title=Gould Prize|url=http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ajs/gould_prize.shtml|website=American Journal of Sociology|access-date=2015-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503095104/http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ajs/gould_prize.shtml|archive-date=2012-05-03|url-status=dead}} given by the American Journal of Sociology for the best article published in 2008/2009,{{cite journal|last1=Sharkey|first1=Patrick|title=The Intergenerational Transmission of Context|journal=American Journal of Sociology|date=2008|volume=113|issue=4|pages=931–969|doi=10.1086/522804|s2cid=142767543}} and was co-winner of the best article in urban sociology published in 2008/2009{{cite journal|last1=Sharkey|first1=Patrick|title=The Intergenerational Transmission of Context|journal=American Journal of Sociology|date=2008|volume=113|issue=4|pages=931–969|doi=10.1086/522804|s2cid=142767543}} Jane Addams Award{{cite web|title=Community and Urban Sociology Section Jane Addam's Award|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/community_recipients_History.cfm|website=American Sociological Association}} given by the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section.
Sharkey's first book received the Mirra Komarovsky Award{{cite web|title=Komarovsky Book Award|url=http://www.essnet.org/awards/komarovsky-book-award/|website=Eastern Sociological Society}} for the best book of the year from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Otis Dudley Duncan Award{{cite web|title=Sociology of Population|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/population_recipients_History.cfm|website=ASA}} from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award){{cite web|title=The PROSE Awards|url=http://www.proseawards.com/current-winners-2013.html|website=American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence}} in Sociology and Social Work.
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Category:American sociologists
Category:Brown University alumni