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	Professor Peter C. Moskos John Jay College of Criminal Justice

General Links:

Cop in the Hood. My book, published by Princeton University Press.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior liberal arts college of the City University of New York dedicated to education and research in the fields of criminal justice .

L.E.A.P., Law Enforcment Against Prohibition consists of current and former members of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather than prohibition.

Drug War Facts offers statistics related to the war on drugs.

The U.C.R. for all your crime statistics needs.

IPUMS is where the fun begins. Access to census data for researchers.

Crime and Justice News from Criminal Justice Journalists. Get all the day's news you can use, if, of course, you are interested in crime and justice news. I subscribe to their daily mailing list.

Officer Down Memorial Page is dedicated to the memory of police officers killed in the line of duty.

CareerPoliceOfficer.com is "an Insider's Guide to a Career in Law Enforcement," by Barry M. Baker

Class links:
Recommended police readings	A still incomplete but good list of books and articles related to police and crime prevention.
Corrections Links	Professor Mellow's extensive list of corrections links.
Formating notes for writing assignments	If I'm grading your papers, you have to read this. This does not apply to reading responses.
ASA and APA Style	For your references, citations, and bibliography, you must learn and use either American Sociological Association (ASA) style or American Psychological Association (APA) style. APA is often preferred at John Jay, but either is fine. As a sociologist, I'm partial to ASA. Generally, in the text, an author's last name is followed by the year of publication in parenthesis. When listing references in a bibliography, the necessary information includes book name, book author, place of publication, year of publication, and publisher must be listed. For instance: Moskos, Peter. 2008. Cop in the Hood: My Year in Baltimore's Eastern District. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. For an article, you must include the article title and the journal title and volume. For instance: Moskos, Peter. 2007. "Nine-One-One and the Failure of Police Rapid Response." Law Enforcement Executive Forum. 7(4): 137-150. Simple, easy, get it right.
Professor Moskos's 10 rules for writing	If I'm grading your papers, you'd be silly not to read this.
Academic writing needs academic sources	What does it mean to write an academic paper? At the very least, cited academic sources. Read this for a list of accepted "academic" sources.