Richard T. Wright

American criminologist, Board of Regents Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He is known as a pioneer of qualitative research into active street criminals, and, with co-author Scott Decker, wrote Armed Robbers in Action and Burglars on the Job, which won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Scholarship in Crime and Delinquency Award for 1994-95. He is credited as the de facto founder of the St. Louis School of criminology, an approach emphasizing the cognitive and situational dynamics of crime. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2009. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/