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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moskos, Peter, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Departed; Back to School: The Police Academy; New Jack: Learning to Do Drugs; The Corner: Life on the Streets; 911 Is a Joke; Under Arrest: Discretion in the Ghetto; Prohibition: Al Capone's Revenge; EPILOGUE School Daze; AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION Policing Green; Notes; Bibliography; Index.