Peter Moskos: 3 books
Cop in the Hood
My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see....
by Peter Moskos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out,...
Greek Americans
Struggle and Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today....