Peter Moskos

Professor Peter Moskos teaches in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard trained sociologist, is a former Baltimore City Police Officer and is the director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program.

In addition to his primary position at John Jay College, Moskos is a faculty member in CUNY’s Doctoral Program in Sociology, has taught introductory criminal justice classes at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and is a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project.

Moskos studies people the old-fashioned way: He talks to them. Moskos’s first three books — Cop in the Hood, In Defense of Flogging, and Greek Americans — have won high praise and earned him recognition as one of Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave Thinkers” of the year. He has also published in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, the New York Times, CNN, Macleans, Pacific Standard, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and his “Quality Policing” podcast and blog.

His fourth book, Back from the Brink, to be published later this year by Oxford University Press, tells the story of Compstat and New York City’s great 1990s crime drop, told from the perspective of police officers who were on the job.

Peter Moskos can be reached at: mail@petermoskos.com.

Shorter bio: Professor Peter Moskos is a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard trained sociologist, is the author of three books, the director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program, and a former Baltimore City Police Officer.