Assistant Professor
Moskos was born in Chicago and attended public high school (Evanston, Ill), Princeton University (Sociology BA 1994) and Harvard University (Sociology MA & PhD 2004).
He worked as a Baltimore City police officer from 1999 to 2001, patrolling midnight shift in Baltimore’s high-crime Eastern District.
Police in the ’Hood (Princeton University Press, upcoming) is Moskos’s first book and examines urban crime-prevention and police-specific variables linking drug laws to high-levels of African-American violence and imprisonment.
Moskos specializes in police culture, police patrol and crime prevention, drug violence, community policing, police/minority relations, and qualitative methods. His articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Post, and other newspapers
Professor Peter C. Moskos
Department of Law and Police Science
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 10th Ave, Room 422-41
New York, NY 10019
pmoskos@jjay.cuny.edu
http://www.petermoskos.com
