Scott Decker

Scott H. Decker, born July 17, 1950, is an American criminologist and Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where he served as the founding director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice from 2006 to 2014 and later became the first director of the university's Center for Public Criminology. His research centers on gang violence and criminal justice policy, built on decades of fieldwork and interviews with active gang members that shaped his standing as one of the field's leading voices on street gangs. He received the 1989 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Bruce Smith Award in 2011. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/