Professor Peter C. Moskos John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Curriculum Vitae updated December, 2009 (pdf version)
Peter C. Moskos,
Assistant Professor
Dept. of
Law & Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Dept. of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center
899 10th Ave, Room 422-41;
New York, NY 10019
mail@petermoskos.com;
www.petermoskos.com
BIO
Peter Moskos was born in Chicago, graduated from Evanston Township High School, and lives in New York City in Astoria, Queens. He has worked as a movie theater usher, a Chicago Cubs usher, waiter, cook, bartender, bar manager, theater technician (lights and sound), boat captain, busboy, police officer, and professor.
While enrolled as a Harvard University graduate student, Moskos worked as a Baltimore City police officer from 1999 to 2001. He patrolled midnight shift in Baltimore’s high-crime Eastern District.
Cop in the Hood (Princeton University Press, 2008), Moskos’s first book, examines policing from a first-hand police perspective, focusing on the failure of the drug war and its impact on police culture and arrest decision in the ghetto. Cop in the Hood won the 2008 PROSE award for best book in Sociology.
Moskos is currently working on a book on punishment and alternatives to incarceration. More can be found at www.copinthehood.com.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2004) Harvard University, Department of Sociology
M.A. (2004) Harvard University, Department of Sociology
A.B. (1994) Princeton University, Department of Sociology (Magna Cum Laude)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Police patrol and crime prevention; drug violence; police culture; police/minority relations; qualitative methods.
BOOKS
In Defense of Flogging. Basic Books. Due 2011.
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District. Princeton University Press. 2008.
Winner of the 2008 PROSE award for best book in sociology. Reviewed in the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Contemporary Sociology, Jewish Post & Opinion, ACJS Today, and Baltimore Sun.
PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
“Two Shades Of Blue: White and Black in the Blue Brotherhood” Law Enforcement Executive Forum. Vol. 8(5). September 2008.
“The Better Part of Valor: Court-Overtime Pay as the Main Determinant for Discretionary Police Arrests.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum. Vol. 8(4). May 2008.
Washington Post. "It's Time to Legalize Drugs." August 17, 2009.
Reprinted: Miami Herald, August 17. Hanford Sentinal (California), August 17. News Journal (Delaware), August 18. The Press (Atlantic City, NJ), August 18. Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18. Ethiopian Review, August 19. The Week, August 20, 2009. Tampa Tribune, August 23. Times Colonist (Victoria, BC, Canada), August 23. The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), August 23. The Cap Times (Madison, WI), September 10. Big Think "The Best Essays on Politics 2009," December 31.
Washington Post. “Old-School Cops in a New-School World.”August 5, 2003.
Reprinted: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), August 7. The Albuquerque Journal, August 11. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11. Law Enforcement News (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY), October 15, 2005.
Washington Post. “Victims of the War on Drugs.”July 9, 2003.
Reprinted: Cannabis News, July 9. Watertown Daily Times (New York), July 11. Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida), July 13. Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), July 14. Sun-Sentinel (South Florida), July 15. Hartford Courant (Connecticut), July 15. News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), July 16. Detroit News, July 23. Holland Sentinel (Michigan), July 25. The New Times (Vicksburg, Mississippi), September 2003.
Baltimore Sun. “U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Sowed Confusion, Injustice.”April 27, 2001.
Cited: Petition for Rehearing (denied), submitted to US Supreme Court, 99-1408 Atwater, et al. v. Lago Vista, Texas, et al. June 2001.
RESEARCH GRANTS
$4,000 grant from the PSC-CUNY Research Award to study the relationship between drug policy, police culture, and arrests in the Netherlands and the United States.
$18,000 grant from the Niarchos Foundation to co-author the third edition of the book Greek Americans with the author of the first two editions, Professor Charles Moskos of Northwestern University.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
"It ain't about right, it's about money." Plenary Speaker. The Wire as Social Science Fiction. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). Leeds, UK. November 26, 2009.
"The Law-Enforcement Perspective." Safe Injection Facilities of New York. John Jay College. May 22, 2009.
Killadelphia: A Panel Discussion. Part of the Gerald W. Lynch Theater’s Art of Justice Series: Integrating the Arts & Issues of Justice. April 29, 2009.
Northwestern University. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series. April 16, 2009.
Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality Colloquium Series. April 13, 2009.
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. April 8, 2009.
Yale University Urban Ethnography Project mini-conference, "The Urban Ghetto: Then and Now." Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Baltimore MD. March 20, 2009.
SUNY Stoney Brook. February 12, 2009
New York University. February 10, 2009.
Brown University. February 10, 2009.
Philoctetes Society Roundtable. "Aggression." New York City. February 7, 2009.
University of Pennsylvania Urban Ethnography Workshop. February 6, 2009.
Harm Reduction Coalition. New York City. January 29, 2009.
New York Academy of Medicine and Drug Policy Alliance. "New Directions for New York: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy: Harm Reduction Pillar - Coordinating Strategies." New York City. January 23, 2009.
“Closing Plenary: Race, Inner Cities, and the Drug War.” Students for Sensible Drug Policy Tenth Annual Conference. College Park, Maryland. November 2008.
“The Better Part of Valor: Court-Overtime Pay as the Main Determinant for Discretionary Police Arrests.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. St. Louis. November 2008.
“The Wire: Drugs, Prison and Community Survival.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York City. September 2008.
“Police Officers' Attitude Toward Drugs and Arrest Decision: the United States and the Netherlands.” International Conference: Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2008.
“Rapid Response in High-Drug Areas: a misuse of police patrol.” Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2007.
“Bloods, Crips, and Beyond: Anti-Gang Initiatives from Cities to Suburbs.”
Princeton University. April 2006.
“Hell Freezing Over: Broken Windows and Police Action Reclaiming NYC’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. Toronto. November 2005.
“Police Training for Effective Counter-Terrorism.” Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2005.
“Participant P.O. Field Work.” Philadelphia Ethnography Conference.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2005.
“Police, Drugs, and Arrest Discretion.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. Chicago. March 2005.
“Police in the ’Hood.” The Millsaps Faith and Work Initiative. Sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology.
Millsaps College. Jackson, Mississippi. April 2004.
“Public Health, Policing, and Law Enforcement: The Case of HIV/AIDS Prevention.” The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Yale University. November 2003.
“Police and Race in Baltimore.” The Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference.
Stockholm University. March 2003.
“The Failure of 911 Rapid Police Response.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. Boston. March 2003.
“Two Shades Of Blue: Racial Distinctions within a Common Police Identity.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting.
Chicago. November 2002.
“Vaksurveillance en Ordehandhaving [Beat Patrol and Order Maintenance],”
translated into Dutch by Sjaak Aussems. Politieburo Prinsengracht.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 1998.
“Community Policing and Crime Prevention in America and Holland.” The Center for Police Studies, Departments of Criminal law and Criminology of the Law,
Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 1997.
“Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the U.S. from the 1920s to the 1990s” (with Chris Winship and Steve Morgan). IRP Summer Research Workshop: Problems of the Low-Income Population. Madison, Wisconsin. June 1996.
"The Moral of the Story, The Ethicist's take on the news: Good Cops, Bad Cops... and Bad Emmys." By Randy Cohen. The New York Times Sunday Magazine. September 14, 2009.
"On Point" with Tom Ashbrook. Cop in the Hood. National Public Radio. April 30, 2008.
“Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan. Sean Bell Verdict May Deepen Mistrust of Police. National Public Radio. April 29, 2008.
“Bloggingheads TV.” Cop in the Hood. April 14, 2008.
“Fox News Live” with Jamie Colby. Fox TV. The Militarization of Police. May 12, 2007.
“Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan. Examining the Causes of Witness Intimidation. National Public Radio. May 1, 200.
“Brian Lehrer Show.” Stop Snitching? WNYC (New York Public Radio). February 24, 2006.
“Freedom Rings.” The Case for Drug Legalization. WRMN October 31, 2005.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Issues in Criminal Justice: Corrections and Police (CRJ 711). Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009.
Seminar in Police Problems (PSC 401). Fall 2004 (2 sections), Spring 2005, Fall 2007 (2 sections), Spring 2008 (2 sections), Fall 2008 (2 sections), Spring 2009 (2 section), Fall 2009 (2 sections), Spring 2010 (2 section)
Introduction to Policing (SSJ 203), LaGuardia Community College, Fall 2009, Spring 2010.
Introduction to Criminal Justice (CRJ 101). Spring 2005, Fall 2006.
Police Ethics (CRJ 742). Spring 2006.
Police and the Community (CRJ 757). Fall 2005, Fall 2007.
Introduction to Policing (PSC 101). Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101), Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. Fall 1998.
COLLEGE AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Departmental Committees: Curriculum Committee (2009–)
Grades Appeal Committee (2006–)
Reexamination and Formation of Strategic Plan for the Police Studies Program (2007)
Ad hoc subcommittee to formulate departmental bylaws (2008)
College Committees: Predictive Validity of the GRE for Admissions Subcomittee (2009)
Faculty Technology Committee (2004–)
Library Committee (2007–2008)
Police Studies Coordinator for the Department of Law & Police Science (2006-2008)
Founder of the Department of Law and Police Science Faculty Research Salon (2009)
Lectures Organized: Diego Gambetta, Fall 2009.
Joseph Poss, Spring 2008
Ad Clarijs, Fall 2007
Derrick Parker, Fall 2006
Barry Gibbs, Spring 2006
David Klinger, Spring 2005
Volunteer speaker for LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (2002–)
Speaker/liaison for the New York Academy of Medicine. Authored and presented to Harlem Police Precincts on the Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program (ESAP). Spring 2003.
HONORS
Cop in the Hood awarded the 2008 PROSE Award (the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) for Sociology & Social Work.
CUNY “Salute to Scholars” Certificate of Recognition. December, 2008.
CUNY Graduate Program in Anthropology Colloquia Series. October 17, 2008.
“The Wire: Drugs, Prison and Community Survival.” John Jay College. September 25, 2008.
Goldstock Criminal Law Luncheon. NYU. September 9, 2008.
Invitation and travel grant to attend the Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference.
Stockholm, Sweden. March 2003.
Baltimore Sun op-ed cited in Petition for Rehearing (denied), submitted to US Supreme Court, 99-1408 Atwater, et al. v. Lago Vista, Texas, et al. June 2001.
Baltimore Police Department Special Service Commendation Medal. March 2001.
City of Baltimore Citizen Citation. April 2000.
Harvard University Scholarship. 1995 - 1997.
Isadore Brown Thesis Award for Best Sociology Thesis, Princeton University. 1994.
Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University. 1994.
Princeton University Hellenic Studies’ Seegar Grant for study in Greece. 1993.
Chicago Cubs Award in Recognition of Outstanding
Achievement in Crowd Management. 1988.
RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Law,
Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration. 2004 – present. CUNY Doctoral Program in Sociology 2009 – present.
Baltimore City Police Officer. October 1999 – July 2001, Eastern District, uniformed patrol (April 2000 – July 2001). Baltimore City Police Academy (October 1999 – April 2000), Certified in Less Lethal Weaponry and as a Maryland Medical First Responder.
Vera Institute of Justice. Consultant on New York Police Department
community relations memo. December 2002.
Baltimore City Police Academy and Eastern District Police Station. Participant-observation field work, interviews, and panel-study questionnaire. August 1999 – July 2001.
Pieter Aertszstraat Police Station, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Participant-observation field work and evaluation of the program,
“Cops Without Cars” (Blauw uit Blik). October 1997 – August 1998.
Prinsengracht Police Station, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Participant-observation field work and analysis of police strategy towards controlling
weekend crowds on a busy nightlife square (Rembrantplein). May – June 1998.
