The son of military and Greek American sociologist Charles Moskos, he specializes in policing, crime, and punishment.
[3] Moskos wrote the award-winning[4] 2008 book Cop in the Hood, describing his doctoral experiences of participant observation as a police officer in Baltimore's Eastern District from 1999 to 2001.
After calling for drug legalization in a Washington Post op-ed,[10] Moskos was criticized by Gil Kerlikowske,[11] and the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Russell B.
[12] Moskos second book advocated judicial corporal punishment (specifically, flogging) as a voluntary alternative to incarceration.
[13] One reviewer for The Economist responded by saying: "Perhaps the most damning evidence of the broken American prison system is that it makes a proposal to reinstate flogging appear almost reasonable.