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Richard Clark, PhD

Professor - Sociology and Criminology

Rich Clark

eMail

rclark@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-4651

Location

Saint Ignatius Hall 336

Rich Clark

Biography

Expertise:聽Victimology, Juvenile delinquency, Restorative justice and human rights

Dr. Richard Clark received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York in criminal justice and came to John Carroll in 1995. His research interests include the operation of the criminal justice system, the death penalty, the study of forgiveness, human rights and peace building. His teaching areas are mostly in the Criminology Track. In addition to his numerous聽publications, Dr. Clark has presented over 50聽papers at professional meetings.
He regularly teaches the following courses:

100-level:
Introduction to Social Justice
200-level:
Criminology
300-level:
Drugs and Crime, The Death Penalty
400-level:
Violence and Society

The former Director of the University鈥檚 Peace, Justice & Human Rights program, Dr. Clark was one of four faculty members who participated in the inaugural trip on 鈥淐onflict Transformation and Peace Building鈥 that took place in Northern Ireland and was a faculty leader on a similar trip to South Africa. In 2004, Dr. Clark, along with several colleagues, was given an 鈥淎ward of Achievement鈥 from Northern Ohio Live magazine for promoting death penalty issues. Along with departmental colleague, Dr. Wendy Wiedenhoft, he was awarded the 鈥2006 Bilateral Cooperation Award鈥 by the British Chamber of Commerce for work on conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. Finally, Dr. Clark received the 鈥2007 Curtis W. Miles Community Service Award鈥, given by the Faculty Forum Research, Service Faculty Development Committee.聽 Currently, he is the 芭乐大人版app约炮 faculty link to JUHAN (Jesuit University鈥檚 Humanitarian Action Network).聽 In June 2015 he was the Program Chair for the bi-annual JUHAN conference which was held at John Carroll.
Dr. Clark was selected as a 2011 Carl Wilkens Genocide Fellow by the聽Genocide Intervention Network. He is one of 55 community leaders throughout the US who are charged with building 鈥減ermanent anti-genocide constituency willing and able to protect civilians from mass atrocities鈥. Dr. Clark is also a former Board President of the Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America.聽IRTF聽is a Cleveland based organization that promotes聽peace and human rights in Central America and Columbia. It was founded by people of faith and conscience after the 1980 murder of four US church women in El Salvador.

Degrees

  • Ph.D, State University of New York at Albany