Uneasy Peace

“Patrick Sharkey, the leading young scholar of urban crime and concentrated poverty, brilliantly dissects the causes of the great urban crime decline that has brought our great cities back to life, and outlines what it will take to ensure that our cities remain safe, secure, better and more equitable places for all. Uneasy Peace is a must-read for mayors, city-builders, urbanists and all those concerned with building and living in great urban places.” - Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis

“Patrick Sharkey’s achievement in Uneasy Peace is to explain with accessible precision just how much the massive decline in homicide since the 1990’s has mattered to the most vulnerable of city-dwellers, African American men. Sharkey also makes clear why this public health triumph is precarious due to our unrelenting focus on criminal justice to the exclusion of community investments. Any student of cities will regard this book as essential reading.” - Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor at Yale Law School

“Uneasy Peace has enhanced my understanding of one of the most remarkable developments in the last two decades. Patrick Sharkey’s analysis of the decline in urban violent crime is compelling, so too is his discussion of ways to avert a possible new wave of national violence. This well-written and carefully researched book is a must-read for anyone residing in our nation’s cities.” - William Julius Wilson, author of More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City