Professor Richard Wright is our guest for Episode 96. Nate discusses his career as a criminologist, his major contributions to the field, and his thoughts on the future of the discipline.
Richard Wright retired from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2014, having spent 30 very happy years there. He then joined the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University as chair, before retiring again in 2021. Wright has published widely in the area of offending decision making, with particular focus on urban street criminals.
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Get in touch with Richard:
Georgia State University Website // rwright28 AT gsu.edu
These are the works authored by Richard and his colleagues that were discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Wright, R., Decker, S. H., Redfern, A. K., & Smith, D. L. (1992). A snowball’s chance in hell: Doing fieldwork with active residential burglars. Journal of Research in crime and Delinquency, 29(2), 148-161. [article link]
Wright, R. T., & Decker, S. H. (1996). Burglars on the job: Streetlife and residential break-ins. UPNE.
Wright, R. T., & Decker, S. H. (1997). Armed robbers in action: Stickups and street culture. UPNE.
Jacobs, B. A., & Wright, R. (1999). Stick‐up, street culture, and offender motivation. Criminology, 37(1), 149-174. [article link]