Professor Peter C. Moskos Department Chair, Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration Director, NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York 524 W. 59th St., Room 422-6; New York, NY 10019 [email protected]; www.petermoskos.com (updated January 2019) BIO Peter Moskos is the Chair the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the director of the NYPD Executive Masters Leadership Program. He also serves on the faculty of the City University of New York’s Doctoral Program in Sociology, and the Department of Social Science at LaGuardia Community College. Moskos is a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project. Moskos is a Harvard and Princeton trained sociologist and former Baltimore City police officer. He focuses on police culture, crime prevention, qualitative methods, and ending the war on drugs. His first book, Cop in the Hood, won the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Best Book in Sociology. His second book, In Defense of Flogging, was listed as a “Favorite Book of the Year” by Mother Jones and earned Moskos recognition as one of Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave Thinkers of 2011.” Moskos’s third book Greek Americans: Struggle and Success (2013), examines the history, culture, and status of Greek immigrants and their descendants in American. His fourth book, “On the Job,” to be published by the University of California Press, will examine the crime drop and the future of policing, based on interviews with police officers. Along with books and academic journal publications, Moskos reaches policy makers and the broader public though media appearances and articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington Monthly, Macleans, Pacific Standard, Slate, his blog copinthehood.com, and his podcast Quality Policing. Moskos was born in Chicago, went to public schools in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Astoria, Queens. EDUCATION Ph.D. 2004. Harvard University, Sociology. M.A. 2004. Harvard University, Sociology. A.B. 1994. Princeton University, Sociology (Magna Cum Laude). Evanston Township High School. 1989. 2 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Police patrol and crime prevention; drug violence; sociology of police culture; police/minority relations; theories of punishment; qualitative methods. BOOKS 1) Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District. Princeton University Press. 2009. Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for best book in sociology. Reviewed in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Global Crime, Contemporary Sociology, ACJS Today, International Social Science Review, Jewish Post & Opinion, Baltimore Examiner, Global Sociology, Publishers Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, and Freakanomics. Featured in Nation, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, City Paper, Marginal Revolution, The Monkey Cage, Slate, Community Policing Dispatch (U.S. Dept. of Justice), Sociology: A Brief Introduction, Crooked Timber, The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC), Wired. 2) In Defense of Flogging. Basic Books. 2011. Reviewed in The Economist, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, MacClean’s, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, New York Newsday, Washington Times, Cleveland Free Press (Mansfield Frazier), Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, News Observer (N.C.), The Village Voice, Library Journal, The National Herald (Astoria, NY), Organizer (India),California Lawyer, Good, Public Discourse, News- Observer, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Metapsychological Online Review, and Baltimore City Paper. Featured in Mother Jones (Favorite Books of the Year, 2011), The Atlantic (Brave Thinkers of 2011), New Yorker, Chicago Tribune (Clarence Page), Maclean’s, Newser, Salon.com, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Daily Mail (UK), PBS NewsHour, The Crime Report, Vice, Winona Daily News (MN), Hartford Advocate (CT), New Haven Advocate (CT), Ahmededabad Mirror (Gujarat, India), The Boston Globe (Jeff Jacoby), Harpers, CNN, NewsHour, Andrew Sullivan, Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), Chicago Sun-Times (Neil Steinberg), Época (Brazil), Vulture Anticipation Index, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vice, Ethics Alarms, Catholic Moral Theology, Harpers, CNN In the Arena, Hartford Advocate, NewsTalk (Ireland), The Current (CBC radio), Brian Lehrer (WNYC), Charles Adler Show (Canada), The Takeaway (PRI), Joy Cardin Show (Wisconsin Public Radio), Air Talk with Larry Mantle (LA, NPR), National Post (Canada), Baltimore City Paper, Register-Guard (Oregon), NPR Weekend Edition, The Project (Australia), The Herald Sun (Australia), Sunday World (Australia), The Herald Sun’s Investigator (Australia), The Project (Australia), The National Herald (New York). Textbook adaptation: Naughton, Joanne (2012) Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 12/13 (36th edition). McGraw Hill. 3 3) Greek Americans: Struggle and Success (third edition). New Jersey: Transactions Book. 2013. Reviewed in Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Featured in The National Herald (New York), “Greek of the Week” (New Greek TV). 4) It Didn’t Happen Overnight: Police Talk About NYC’s Great Crime Drop. (University of California Press, Forthcoming.) JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, & REVIEWS • Moskos, Peter. 2016. Review of Waverly Duck’s No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing. “On Being Black and Poor in a Small City.” Metropolitics. May 24, 2016. • Moskos, Peter. 2015. “Observations on the Making of a Police Officer” in Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery. Michael D. Maltz and Stephen K. Rice (eds.) Springer. • John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “The Art of Teaching.” 2015. (4,450 words) • John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “Teaching Introduction to Policing.” 2015. (2,100 words) • John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “Using Model Syllabi.” 2015. (1,450 words) • Moskos, Peter. 2013. Review of Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop: “Lockdown Nation: How military-style policing became America’s new normal.” Pacific Standard, July/August 2013. • Moskos, Peter. 2013. “The Four-Percent Solution: A Discussion of the Caveats of Catching Big Fish with Nets.” ACJS Today, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Vol 38(2). • Moskos, Peter. 2013. Review of Bryn Caless’s “Policing at the Top: The Roles, Values and Attitudes of Chief Police Officers”: International Criminal Justice Review, 22, no. 4: 453-455. • Moskos, Peter. 2013. Introduction. Collins, Peter A. & David C. Brody, eds. Crime and Justice in the City as Seen Through “The Wire.” Carolina Academic Press. • Moskos, Peter. 2012. “The Corner: Life on the Streets.” In Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork, edited by Richard E. Ocejo. New York: Routledge. 2012 • Moskos, Peter. 2012. The Chronicle of Higher Education. “James Q. Wilson’s Practical Humanity.” March 3. Reprinted in ACJS Today: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 37(5): 28-30. • Moskos, Peter. 2011. “Damned if You Don’t: The Dilemma of Police Discretion.” ACJS Today: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 37(2):19-21. • Gideon, Lior and Peter Moskos. “Observations as Data Collection Methods.” In Theories of Research Methodology: Readings in Methods (2nd edition), edited by Lior Gideon. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2011. • Gideon, Lior and Peter Moskos. “The Interview.” In Theories of Research Methodology: Readings in Methods (2nd edition), edited by Lior Gideon. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2011. • Moskos, Peter. 2011. Review of Jennifer Hunt’s “Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath”: Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 1, no. 1: 90-92. 4 • Moskos, Peter. 2011. Review of Vicky Conway’s “The Blue Wall of Silence: The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in Ireland”: International Criminal Justice Review, 21, no. 2: 171-172. • Moskos, Peter. “In Defense of Doing Nothing: The Methodological Utility of Introversion.” In New Directions in Sociology: Essays on Theory and Methodology in the 21st Century, edited by Ieva Zake and Michael DeCesare, 160-171. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2011. • Chronicle of Higher Education. “In Defense of Flogging.” April 24, 2011. Reprinted: The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.), May 8. • Moskos, Peter. 2010. “Policing: A Sociologist’s Response to an Anthropological Account.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33, no. S1: 32-35. • Moskos, Peter. 2008. Review of Bernard E. Harcourt’s “Against Prediction”: American Journal of Sociology 113, no. 5: 1464-1477. • Moskos, Peter. 2008. “Two Shades Of Blue: White and Black in the Blue Brotherhood.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 8, no. 5 (September). • Moskos, Peter. 2008. “The Better Part of Valor: Court-Overtime Pay as the Main Determinant for Discretionary Police Arrests.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 8, no. 4 (May). • Moskos, Peter. 2007. “Nine-One-One and the Failure of Police Rapid Response.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 7, no. 4 (May): 137-150. • Moskos, Peter. 2005. Review of Norm Stamper’s Breaking Rank: Law Enforcement News (September). • Police in the Hood. 2005. Harvard Sociology PhD dissertation. • Moskos, Peter. 1995. “Afro-Anglo: America’s Core Culture: A Consolidation of Peoples in the United States.” National Journal of Sociology 9, No. 2. TEACHING • CRJ 711, Issues in Criminal Justice, Corrections and Police: Fall 2019 (NYPD