Ronald Victor Gemuseus Clarke (born 24 April 1941) is a British criminologist and University Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at

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. He is also the associate director of the

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Education

Clarke earned his BA in

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and philosophy from the

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in 1962, and his MA in

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or Mental disorder, dysfunction and to promote subjective mental ...

and PhD in psychology from the

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in 1965 and 1968, respectively.

Career

Before joining the faculty of Rutgers' Newark campus, Clarke did criminological research for the Home Office for fifteen years in his native United Kingdom. He became the director of the Home Office Research and Planning Unit in 1982. At the Home Office, he helped develop

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in criminology and launch the

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. In 1984, he moved to the United States, where he originally taught at

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. In 1987, he joined Rutgers University-Newark as the dean of their School of Criminal Justice, a position he held until 1998. Since 2001, he has been a visiting professor at

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Honors and awards

Clarke has been a fellow of the

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since 1978. He was the co-recipient of the 2015

Stockholm Prize in Criminology The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is an international prize in the field of criminology, established under the aegis of the Swedish Ministry of Justice. It has a permanent endowment in the trust of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation. ...

, along with

Patricia Mayhew Patricia Mayhew is a British criminologist and civil servant. She was formerly the Deputy Head of the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit at the Home Office in the United Kingdom, as well as the director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at ...

, in honor of their work in

situational crime prevention Crime prevention is the attempt to reduce and deter crime and criminals. It is applied specifically to efforts made by governments to reduce crime, enforce the law, and maintain criminal justice. Studies Criminologists, commissions, and research b ...

Editorial activities

Clarke was the founding

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of the anthology ''Crime Prevention Studies''.

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