Todd Clear is University Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. He has served previously as provost of Rutgers University-Newark, and before that dean of the School of Criminal Justice. Clear has also held professorships at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (where he held the rank of Distinguished Professor), and Florida State University (where he was also associate dean of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice). The author of 13 books and over 100 articles and book chapters, Professor Clear's most recent book is The Punishment Imperative, (with Natasha Frost). He has written on community justice, correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional methods, intermediate sanctions, and sentencing policy. He is currently involved in studies of mass incarceration, prison reform and violence, and college for people in prison.
Professor Clear has served as president of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. His work has been recognized through awards given by the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Rockefeller School of Public Policy, the American Probation and Parole Association, the American Correctional Association, and the International Community Corrections Association. He was the founding editor of the journal Criminology & Public Policy, published by the American Society of Criminology.
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