Peter Reuter
Born (1944-12-04) December 4, 1944
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales (B.A. with honors, 1966), Yale University (M. Phil., 1971; Ph.D., 1980)
Known forWork on drug policy
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology, economics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ThesisThe organization of illegal markets: an exploratory study (1980)

Peter Reuter (born December 4, 1944) is an American criminologist and economist. He is a professor in both the School of Public Policy and in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland. In 2020, he was appointed University of Maryland Distinguished Professor. Since 1985, his research has focused mainly on alternative drug policies in the United States and Western Europe.[1] In 1988, he was described by Peter Kerr of the New York Times as "one of the few economists who studies illegal drug markets."[2]

Career

After receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1980, Reuter began working at the RAND Corporation in 1981 as a senior economist in their Washington, D.C. office. In 1989, he founded the RAND Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center, and served as its director until 1993, when he left RAND to become a professor of criminology at the University of Maryland.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Reuter". University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  2. ↑ Kerr, Peter (1988-05-15). "The Unspeakable Is Debated: Should Drugs Be Legalized?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  3. ↑ "Peter Reuter CV" (PDF).
  4. ↑ Kiely, Eugene (2017-08-30). "Will Trump's Wall Stop Drug Smuggling?". FactCheck.org. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
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