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Richard T. Wright

Criminal Justice

#190

World Rank

#216

Historical Rank

#72

USA Rank

Criminology

#139

World Rank

#155

Historical Rank

#47

USA Rank

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Richard T. Wright

Sociology

#1645

World Rank

#1857

Historical Rank

#596

USA Rank

sociology Degrees

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Richard T. Wright's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Criminology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard T. Wright is an American criminologist. He is Board of Regent's Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at GSU from 2014–2018, and was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2009.

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Richard T. Wright's Published Works

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Burglars on Burglary: Prevention and the Offender (1984) (278)
Drug Dealers, Robbery and Retaliation. Vulnerability, Deterrence and the Contagion of Violence (2002) (193)
GENDER, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY* (2003) (102)
Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program (2014) (99)
The Relevance of Peace to Studies of Drug Market Violence (2008) (97)
INFORMAL CONTROL AND ILLICIT DRUG TRADE (2011) (69)
How Young House Burglars Choose Targets (1988) (60)
Intimacy with Outlaws (2008) (49)
Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers (2015) (48)
Sex Offender Laws: Failed Policies, New Directions (2009) (47)
Drug dealers' rational choices on which customers to rip-off. (2014) (46)
SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION: PUBLIC ATTENTION, POLITICAL EMPHASIS, AND FEAR (2003) (40)
The impact of prescribing on the crimes of opioid users. (1986) (39)
Exploring the Offender’s Perspective: Observing and Interviewing Criminals (1990) (32)
“It takes skills to take a car”: Perceptual and procedural expertise in carjacking (2015) (32)
Gossip, Decision-Making and Deterrence in Drug Markets (2015) (30)
Opioid users' attitudes towards and use of NHS clinics, general practitioners and private doctors. (1986) (29)
How Victimized Drug Traders Mobilize Police (2013) (26)
The relationship between alcohol use and burglary. (1984) (24)
Effects of Prohibition and Decriminalization on Drug Market Conflict: Comparing Street Dealers, Coffeeshops, and Cafés in Amsterdam (2016) (23)
Drug dealers, retaliation, and deterrence. (2014) (21)
Sex Offender Post-Incarceration Sanctions: Are There Any Limits? (2008) (21)
THE FUNNY SIDE OF DRUG DEALING: RISK, HUMOR, AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY (2017) (17)
Constraints to Burglary;The Offender’s Perspective (1984) (17)
A Sociological Theory of Drug Sales, Gifts, and Frauds (2014) (16)
Right or Wrong? Toward a Theory of IRBs’ (Dis)Approval of Research (2010) (13)
The Drug‐Taking Careers of Opioid Users (1986) (11)
From Wetterling to Walsh: The Growth of Federalization in Sex Offender Policy (2008) (11)
Are College-Educated Police Officers Different? A Study of Stops, Searches, and Arrests (2018) (11)
Criminology as social control: discriminatory research & its role in the reproduction of social inequalities and crime (2010) (9)
Where Are We? Why Are We Here? Where Are We Going? How Do We Get There? The Future of Qualitative Research in American Criminology (2017) (8)
Disproportionate Representation: Communities of Color in the Domestic Violence, Juvenile Justice, and Child Welfare Systems (2003) (7)
Choosing Street Crime (2012) (6)
Apprehending criminals: the impact of law on offender-based research (2020) (6)
Crime in Motion:: Predation, Retaliation and the Spread of Urban Violence (2017) (6)
The emergence and evolution of drug user groups in the UK (2011) (5)
The VictimizationTermination Link (2008) (5)
Seeing ourselves: Exploring the social production of criminological knowledge in a qualitative methods course (1996) (4)
Ironies of Crime, Control, and Criminology (2012) (4)
Liquidating Crime with Illiquidity: How Switching from Cash to Credit Can Stop Street Crime (2014) (3)
The Code of the Suburb and Drug Dealing (2012) (3)
Intimacy with Outlaws: The Role of Relational Distance in Recruiting, Paying, and Interviewing Underworld Research Participants (2020) (1)
Internet Sex Offending and the Online Sting (2015) (1)
Armed robbery and the meanings of money. (2023) (0)
Drug Dealers’ Rational Choices on Which Customers to Rip-Off (2020) (0)
Drug Law and Violent Retaliation (2020) (0)
Victimization and Social Control in Amsterdam Cafés and Coffeeshops (2012) (0)
Drugs and Crime (2009) (0)
The Unwanted Sexual Experiences of Bridgewater State University Students: A Baseline Prevalence Study (2012) (0)
Ironies of Crime, Control, and Criminology (2011) (0)
A Preview of Sex Crime Legislation: The Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act of 2006 (2007) (0)
Sex Offender Policy and Illusions of Safety: Our Misguided Efforts to Protect the Public (2010) (0)
Breaking the Cycles That Breed Urban Violence: (574242014-005) (2014) (0)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: An Examination of the Growing Use of Preventive Detention (2008) (0)
6 the Offender's Perspective: Observing and Interviewing Criminals * (1990) (0)
How Dealing Drugs Makes Someone Cool: A Study of Young, Middle-Class Suburbanites (2013) (0)
Is Rape Justification for Murder? An Examination of the Execution of Sex Offenders (2008) (0)
Expert Decision-Making in Offenders. (2006) (0)
Establishing a Baseline Prevalence of Unwanted Sexual Experiences in a New England University (2011) (0)
Drug Dealers, Retaliation, and Deterrence (2020) (0)
American Violence: Survival, Healing, and the Failure of American Policy (2019) (0)
Plenary 1: Faculty Perspectives and Insights into Campus Sexual Violence (2015) (0)
The role of policy in preventing sexual violence (2017) (0)
Prevalence and the Role of Support Systems in Addressing Campus Sexual Aggression and Assault (2010) (0)
Listening: The Role of Narratives In Healing from Violence (2013) (0)

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