Years of service 1999–2001 Name Peter Moskos | Education Harvard University | |
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Rank Sworn in as an officer – 1999 Books Cop in the Hood, In Defense of Flogging | ||
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Peter Moskos is a former Baltimore Police Department officer who is now an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center in the Department of Sociology. The son of military and Greek American sociologist Charles Moskos, he specializes in policing, crime, and punishment. Moskos was listed by The Atlantic as one of their "Brave Thinkers of 2011" for his book In Defense of Flogging. In Defense of Flogging proposes giving individuals convicted of a crime a choice between incarceration and corporal punishment.
Contents
- Glenn loury peter moskos the glenn show
- Cop in the hood an examination of peter mosko s book
- Cop in the Hood
- Corporal punishment
- References
Cop in the hood an examination of peter mosko s book
Cop in the Hood
Moskos wrote the award-winning 2008 book Cop in the Hood, describing his doctoral experiences of participant observation as a police officer in Baltimore's Eastern District from 1999 to 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 predominantly African American 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.
Corporal punishment
Moskos second book advocated judicial corporal punishment as a voluntary alternative to incarceration and was reviewed in The Economist and other publications.
