Cop in the Hood : : My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District /

Cop in the Hood : : My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District / / Peter Moskos.

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 se...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Moskos, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. The Departed
  • CHAPTER 2. Back to School: The Police Academy
  • CHAPTER 3. New Jack: Learning to Do Drugs
  • CHAPTER 4. The Corner: Life on the Streets
  • CHAPTER 5. 911 Is a Joke
  • CHAPTER 6. Under Arrest: Discretion in the Ghetto
  • CHAPTER 7. Prohibition: Al Capone's Revenge
  • EPILOGUE. School Daze
  • AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION. Policing Green
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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