Peter Reuter (born December 4, 1944) is an American criminologist and economist. He is a professor in both the

School of Public Policy A public policy school is typically a university program that teaches students policy analysis, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, international relations, security studies, political science, ...

and in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland. In 2020, he wa
appointed University of Maryland Distinguished Professor
Since 1985, his research has focused mainly on alternative drug policies in the United States and Western Europe. In 1988, he was described by Peter Kerr of '' the New York Times'' as "one of the few economists who studies illegal drug markets."

Career

After receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1980, Reuter began working at the

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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.

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at the Department of Criminology
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at the School of Public Policy * Living people American criminologists University of Maryland, College Park faculty Yale University alumni University of New South Wales alumni RAND Corporation people 1944 births Winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology {{Criminologist-stub