Peter Moskos is an American professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration and the CUNY Graduate Center in the Department of Sociology. He is a former Baltimore Police Department officer. 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.[1][2] In Defense of Flogging proposes giving individuals convicted of a crime a choice between incarceration and corporal punishment.[3]
Peter Moskos | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 5, 1971 |
| Police career | |
| Department | Baltimore Police Department |
| Service years | 1999–2001 |
| Rank | Officer |
Cop in the Hood
editMoskos wrote the award-winning[4] 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.[5][6] Moskos, a Harvard graduate[7] 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[8] which encompassed a predominantly African-American ghetto of East Baltimore.[9]
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,[10] Moskos was criticized by Gil Kerlikowske,[11] and the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Russell B. Laine.[12]
Corporal punishment
editMoskos second book advocated judicial corporal punishment (specifically, flogging) as a voluntary alternative to incarceration.[13] One reviewer for The Economist responded by saying: "Perhaps the most damning evidence of the broken American prison system is that it makes a proposal to reinstate flogging appear almost reasonable. Almost".[14]
References
edit- ^ "Atlantic's Brave Thinkers 2011". The Atlantic.
- ^ Hoyt, Alex (3 October 2011). "Peter Moskos". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ^ Moskos, Peter (May 31, 2011). In Defense of Flogging (17473rd ed.). Basic Books. ISBN 9780465021482.
- ^ "The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence".
- ^ Heller, Jordan (Aug 26, 2008). "The Ivy Leaguer Who Took on Prop Joe". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
- ^ Hammond, Ed (Aug 30, 2008). "First Person". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
- ^ "John Jay College of Criminal Justice". Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ^ Moskos, Peter (2008) [2008]. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14008-7.
Harvard trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore's roughest neighborhood-the Eastern District.
- ^ Moskos, Peter (2008) [2008]. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-691-14008-7.
The area suffers from crime, drugs, and blight. Ninety-seven percent of the district is African American.
- ^ Moskos, Peter; Stanford "Neill" Franklin (Aug 17, 2009). "It's Time to Legalize Drugs". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ Morgan, Scott (October 7, 2009). "Irony Alert: Drug Czar Complains About Media Bias". Retrieved October 10, 2009.
- ^ Laine, Russell B (2009-08-21). "letter to editor (unpublished)". Retrieved 2009-10-10.
- ^ Moskos, Peter (2011). In Defense of Flogging. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02148-2.
- ^ "Sing Sing or the lash: Should America flog criminals instead of jailing them?". The Economist. July 23, 2011. ISSN 0013-0613.