Peter Moskos
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Peter Moskos is a former Baltimore Police Department
officer who is currently an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and the CUNY Graduate Center
in the Department of Sociology. The son of deceased Northwestern University
professor Charles Moskos
, he specializes in a sociological approach to police culture, police patrol and crime prevention, drug violence, community policing and terrorism, police/minority relations, and qualitative methods.
ghetto of East Baltimore. In the book, Moskos argues in favor of reforming the criminal justice system and the legalization of drugs. After calling for drug legalization in a Washington Post op-ed, Moskos was attacked by President Obama's Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, and the President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police
, Russell B. Laine.
as an alternative to incarceration and was reviewed in The Economist
and other publications.
Baltimore Police Department
The Baltimore Police Department provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland and was officially established by the Maryland Legislature on March 16, 1853...
officer who is currently an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic...
and the CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...
in the Department of Sociology. The son of deceased Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
professor Charles Moskos
Charles Moskos
Charles C. Moskos was a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University...
, he specializes in a sociological approach to police culture, police patrol and crime prevention, drug violence, community policing and terrorism, police/minority relations, and qualitative methods.
Cop in the Hood
Moskos authored the award winning 2008 book Cop in the Hood, describing his experiences as a police officer in Baltimore's Eastern District from 1999 - 2001. Moskos, a Harvard graduate student raised in a white middle class liberal household describes his first hand experiences with poverty and violent crime in the Baltimore Police Department's Eastern District which encompassed a virtually all African AmericanAfrican American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
ghetto of East Baltimore. In the book, Moskos argues in favor of reforming the criminal justice system and the legalization of drugs. After calling for drug legalization in a Washington Post op-ed, Moskos was attacked by President Obama's Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, and the President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police
International Association of Chiefs of Police
The International Association of Chiefs of Police was founded in Chicago in 1893 as the National Chiefs of Police Union. The primary goal of this organization was to apprehend and return criminals who had fled the agency jurisdictions in which they were wanted...
, Russell B. Laine.
In Defense of Flogging
Moskos second book advocated judicial corporal punishmentJudicial corporal punishment
Judicial corporal punishment refers to the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence by a court of law. The punishment can be flogging, caning, birching, whipping, or strapping...
as an alternative to incarceration and was reviewed in The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
and other publications.
External links
- Professor Peter C. Moskos John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Video (and audio) of interview/conversation with Moskos by Will WilkinsonWill WilkinsonWill Wilkinson is a Canadian American libertarian writer. Until August 2010, he was a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he worked on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. He is currently working on a paper...
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