Peter Marina
As a sociologist and criminologist, I write about new and emergent forms of transgression in our highly contradictory late-modern social world. My approach to sociology incorporates the striking dialectic of history and biography that allows me to penetrate and interact with a wide range of culturally diverse social groups around the world in a quest to make sense both empirically and theoretically of this rapidly changing, surprising but always fascinating world.
Biography
Dr. Peter Marina, a New Orleans native, is a PhD graduate of the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and author of Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy (Columbia University Press, 2017), among other books. As a sociologist and criminologist, Marina writes about new and emergent forms of transgression in our highly contradictory late-modern social world. His approach to sociology incorporates the striking dialectic of history and biography that allows him to penetrate and interact with a wide range of culturally diverse social groups around the world — from inner-city youths and street kids, to urban street performers and willful outsiders on the social fringes of the metropolis, to religiously inspired residents of the inner-city and urban occultists and Satanists, and most recently, to down and out urban dwellers — in a quest to make sense both empirically and theoretically of this rapidly changing, surprising but always fascinating world.Education
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Ph.D., Sociology. New School for Social Research, New York
M.A., Sociology. University of New Orleans
B.A., Education. University of New Orleans
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Criminology & Criminal Justice
Sociology of the City
Urban Ethnography
Race & Ethnicity
Transgressive Sociology
Critical & Cultural Criminology
Travel & Tourism
Hispanic Immigration
Stratification & Social Inequalities
Human Rights Policing
Personal Interests
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World Travel
Books
Articles
“A Call for Human Rights Policing: We Can Make the World Better.”
Published: Aug 25, 2022 by The Blue Magazine. Vol. 12, Issue 5, November 26.
Authors: Peter marina
To become the world’s best model of policing, we need a standard national human rights police training program that trains law enforcement agents how to apply human rights in their everyday police interactions with community members. Human rights remains a concept, but far from a practice in society. Is it possible that police officers can serve as the harbinger towards making human rights a reality? We say yes. We can make the world better.
Videos
Published: Jul 08, 2023