Cop in the Hood
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Author | Peter Moskos |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | April 2008 |
Pages | 245 |
ISBN | 978-0-691-14008-7 |
OCLC | 181079174 |
363.2092 B 22 | |
LC Class | HV7911.M644 A3 2008 |
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District is a book written in 2008 by a former Baltimore police officer, Peter Moskos. In this book Peter describes his one-year working in Baltimore's Eastern District. Moskos, a Harvard graduate student raised in a white middle class liberal household, describes his first hand experiences with poverty and violent crime in Baltimore's roughest police district,[1] which encompassed a virtually all African American ghetto of East Baltimore.[2]
In the book, Moskos argues in favor of reforming the criminal justice system and the legalization of drugs. After Moskos graduated from Harvard, he became a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he currently teaches.[citation needed]
See also[]
General:
References[]
- ^ Moskos, Peter (2008). Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-069114008-7 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Moskos 2008, pp. 10–11.
External links[]
- 2008 non-fiction books
- Baltimore Police Department
- Crime in Baltimore
- Culture of Baltimore
- Non-fiction crime books
- Princeton University Press books
- Crime book stubs