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The loneliness crisis is a content crisis

The Argument, 2026-08-27

Can Nonprofits Reduce Violent Crime?

Profs on Cops (podcast), 2026-07-30

How Charities Fight Crime

The New York Times (Headway newsletter), 2026-07-15

Why Crime Rates Are Falling Across the U.S.

TIME, 2026-01-24

U.S. crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here's where it stands.

The Washington Post, 2026-01-23

Homicides fell sharply in large US cities in 2025, new report says

USA Today, 2026-01-22

What's Driving the Drop in Homicide? How Low Might It Go?

Council on Criminal Justice, 2026-01-21

The great crime decline is happening all across the country

The Atlantic, 2026-01-21

Why is New York City So Safe? And What Can That Tell us About Achieving Safety Elsewhere?

The Imprint, 2025-12-15

The Great American Fitness Boom

Derek Thompson (Substack), 2025-08-14

We're spending a lot more time at home

Home News Now, 2025-03-25

Social Isolation and "Loneliness" of Young Adults

The Society Pages, 2025-03-06

The Anti-Social Century

The Atlantic, 2025-01-08

Celebrating Happy Homebodies

Psychology Today, 2025-01

Princeton SPIA Professor Awarded Grant to Combat Gun Violence through New Research Network

Princeton SPIA News, 2024-11-18

Why are we spending so much time at home?

WHYY Studio 2, 2024-10-09

Americans have been spending more time at home since 2003, study finds

CBS News (video), 2024-10-08

Why People Are Spending So Much More Time at Home

Psychology Today, 2024-10-07

A Nation of Homebodies

The New York Times (The Upshot), 2024-10-05

Crime and Punishment: Can American policing be fixed?

Harper's Magazine, 2024-04

A Drop in American Gun Violence

The New York Times (The Morning), 2023-11-01

What Books Should You Read About Gun Violence Prevention?

The Trace, 2023-06

America Has Become Both More and Less Dangerous Since Black Lives Matter

The New York Times (Opinion), 2023-05-17

Myths and Realities: Understanding Recent Trends in Violent Crime

Brennan Center for Justice, 2022-07-12

It's Not Just You: America's Epidemic of Bad Behavior

The Ringer, 2022-04-08

Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?

The Ezra Klein Show (New York Times), 2021-11-23

Why Is Crime Rising?

The Good Fight (Persuasion), 2021-07-24

The world's top 50 thinkers 2021

Prospect Magazine, 2021-07-13

'Defund the police': What it means and what the research says

The Journalist's Resource, 2021-06-29

2021 on track to be America's deadliest year of gun violence in two decades

CBS News, 2021-06-24

America's Crime Surge: Why Violence Is Rising, And Solutions To Fix It

WBUR On Point, 2021-06-11

How Can We Stop Gun Violence?

The New York Review of Books, 2021-06-10

Violent crime is spiking. We don't know why, but we know what to do

Slate Political Gabfest, 2021-06-03

Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?

The New Republic, 2021-05-26

A More Violent America with Patrick Sharkey

Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, 2021-05-18

It's set to be a hot, violent summer

Axios, 2021-05-01

How We Might Reimagine Law Enforcement

PBS Amanpour and Company, 2021-04-15

Patrick Sharkey Is Taking a Stand on Gun Violence in Relation to Police Brutality

PBS Chasing the Dream, 2021-04-15

Why America's Great Crime Decline Is Over

The Atlantic, 2021-03-24

Gun violence marks end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 in Philly

PhillyVoice, 2021-01-01

2020 Ends as One of America's Most Violent Years in Decades

TIME, 2020-12-30

The Science of Soft Policing

American Diagnosis (Just Human Productions), 2020-12-15

New Marquette Lawyer Magazine Goes Deep in Looking at Crime and Society

Marquette Law School Faculty Blog, 2020-11-23

2020 homicide rate could be highest in 15+ years

The Trace, 2020-11

On The Issues: Patrick Sharkey

Marquette Law School, On the Issues with Mike Gousha, 2020-07-22

US policing never adjusted to the decades-long decline in urban violence

City Monitor, 2020-07-08

Patrick Sharkey: Keep the Police, but Add a Corps of Problem Solvers

Marquette Law School Faculty Blog, 2020-07

Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Life

Princeton Alumni Weekly, 2020-02-21

Turning Away From Success

City Journal, 2019-04-11

The Troubling Limits of the 'Great Crime Decline'

Bloomberg CityLab, 2019-03-20

A New Data Tool Chronicles the Shifting Murder Rates of American Cities

The Trace, 2018-08-13

Falling Crime Rates Are Good, at a Cost. A Writer Sees Both Sides.

The New York Times Book Review, 2018-06-22

Keeping the Peace: Patrick Sharkey on Sustaining the Great Crime Decline

Center for Justice Innovation, New Thinking podcast, 2018-06-20

The New Urban Guardians: How ordinary people played a role in the great crime decline

TheBurg, 2018-04-30

Author Patrick Sharkey on falling crime

WITF Smart Talk, 2018-04-12

Prominent Sociologist Spotlights Community Organizations' Role in Crime Reduction

Marquette Law School Faculty Blog, 2018-03-07

Looking Away from Urban Crime

City Journal, 2018-02-14

The Great Crime Decline

The New Yorker, 2018-02-12

Unpacking the Great American Crime Decline

WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show, 2018-02-01

How Nonprofits Have Contributed To America's Decline In Crime

WBUR Radio Boston, 2018-01-29

Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline and the Renewal of City Life

WGBH Forum Network, 2018-01-25

Crime Is Down In American Cities, And 'Uneasy Peace' Explains Why

NPR Weekend Edition, 2018-01-20

An 'Uneasy Peace' and the Search for Durable Cities

The Wall Street Journal, 2018-01-17

The Great Crime Decline and the Comeback of Cities

Bloomberg CityLab, 2018-01-16

Nonprofit Crime Reduction

Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2018

Much progress in cities since the '70s

New York Daily News, 2017-12-24

Nonprofits May Have Been the Secret Sauce that Helped End '90s Crime Wave

Nonprofit Quarterly, 2017-11-30

The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline

The New York Times (The Upshot), 2017-11-09

Uneasy Peace

Kirkus Reviews, 2017-10-01

The Impact of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility

Bloomberg CityLab, 2017-08-22

NYU sociologist, community leaders grapple with city's violence

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, 2016-04-29

On the Issues: Patrick Sharkey

Marquette Law School, On the Issues with Mike Gousha, 2016-04-26

The Case for Reparations

The Atlantic, 2014-05-21

The Urban Poor Shall Inherit Poverty

The American Prospect, 2014-01-07

Ta-Nehisi Coates' Graph of the Year

The Washington Post (Wonkblog), 2013-12-26

Moving Beyond the Question of Whether Neighborhoods Matter

MIT Center for Civic Media, 2013-09-23

Are Poor Families Stuck in Place?

Shelterforce, 2013-07-12

Stuck in Place: A new book well worth reading

Urban Institute, Urban Wire, 2013-07-08

Achievement Gap Mystery Partly Solved: It's Murder

Education Week, 2010-07-05

Children living in areas where homicides committed have lower reading, verbal test scores, study finds

ScienceDaily, 2010-06-14

Poor Neighborhoods Key in Income Difference, Study Finds

The Washington Post, 2009-07-27

Financial Sustainability Affected By Your Neighborhood?

NPR Tell Me More, 2009-07