Todd Clear
{{Short description|American criminologist}}
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| education = Anderson University (B.A., 1971), State University of New York, Albany (M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1977)
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Todd Ray Clear (born March 15, 1949){{cite web | url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80029000.html | title=Todd Clear | work=Library of Congress | accessdate=12 March 2016}} is an American criminologist and distinguished professor in the school of criminal justice at Rutgers University–Newark.
Education
Clear received his BA in sociology from Anderson University in 1971, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in criminal justice from the State University of New York, Albany in 1972 and 1977, respectively.{{cite web | url=http://www.rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/rscj/faculty/cv/Todd%20Clear%20VITA.pdf | title=Todd Clear Curriculum vitae | accessdate=12 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313045104/http://www.rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/rscj/faculty/cv/Todd%20Clear%20VITA.pdf | archive-date=2016-03-13 | url-status=dead }}
Career
Clear's first academic appointment was at the State University of New York at Albany in 1973.{{cite web | url=http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/about-us/have-you-met-rutgers-newark/todd-r-clear-0 | title=Todd Clear | work=Rutgers University–Newark | accessdate=12 March 2016}} He joined the faculty of Rutgers University–Newark in 1978 as a professor in the school of criminal justice, a position he held until 1996. He served as the Associate Dean of the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2010, he served as a distinguished professor in the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2010, he became the dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, a position he held until September 1, 2014, when he was replaced by Shadd Maruna.{{cite web | url=http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/provost-todd-clear-receives-high-honors | title=Provost Todd Clear Receives High Honors | work=Rutgers University | date=26 February 2014 | accessdate=12 March 2016 | author=Fox Nixon, Ferlanda}}{{cite web | url=http://news.rutgers.edu/news/shadd-maruna-named-dean-school-criminal-justice-rutgers-university-newark/20140415#.VuRIaBIrL-Y | title=Shadd Maruna Named Dean of School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark | work=Rutgers University | date=15 April 2014 | accessdate=12 March 2016 | author=Capizzi, Carla}} After serving as interim chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark for six months, he became the provost in January 2014, a position he held for two years. He then returned to the faculty of the University's School of Criminal Justice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/about-us/have-you-met-rutgers-newark/todd-r-clear-0|title=Todd R. Clear |website=Rutgers University-Newark|language=en|access-date=2017-10-31}}
Research
Clear has researched various aspects of crime policy during his career. These include incarceration in the United States and its effects on crime,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/16/AR2005101600800.html|title=The Price of Low Expectations|last=Raspberry|first=William|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2005-10-17|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/28/news/prisons-run-out-of-cells-money-and-choices.html|title=Prisons Run Out of Cells, Money and Choices|last=Clines|first=Francis X.|date=1993-05-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} the effectiveness of prison religion programs,{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0419/p14s02-lire.html|title=A captive audience for salvation|date=2006-04-19|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2017-10-31|issn=0882-7729}} and the effects of individuals often being punished with fines for breaking certain laws.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=314607003|title=Court Fees Drive Many Poor Defendants Underground|work=NPR.org|date=2014-05-21|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en}}
Honors, awards and positions
Clear has served as president of the American Society of Criminology (2008-2009), The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1999-2000), and The Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice (1998-2006).{{cite web | url=http://rscj.newark.rutgers.edu/faculty/member/dr-todd-clear/ | title=Todd Clear | work=Rutgers School of Criminal Justice Website | accessdate=12 March 2016}} In 2004, he received the Bruce Smith Sr. Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; in 2007, he received the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology.
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External links
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Category:American criminologists
Category:Rutgers University faculty
Category:Anderson University (Indiana) alumni