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RICHARD D. CLARK, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
216-397-4651
rclark@jcu.edu

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, and human rights. His teaching areas are mostly in the Criminology Track. In addition to his 20 publications, Dr. Clark has presented over 60 papers at professional meetings.


He regularly teaches the following courses:

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


In addition to his work in the criminology sequence, Dr. Clark has been active in developing the University’s program on human rights and peace building. He was one of four faculty members who participated in the inaugural trip on “Conflict Transformation and Peace Building” that took place in Northern Ireland and recently was a faculty leader on a similar trip to South Africa. He is currently co-coordinating a faculty learning community on Human Rights and Peace Building. In 2004, Dr. Clark, along with several colleagues, was given an "Award of Achievement" from Northern Ohio Live magazine for promoting death penalty issues. Along with departmental colleague, Dr. Wendy Wiedenhoft, he was awarded the "2006 Bilateral Cooperation Award" by the British Chamber of Commerce for work on conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. Finally, Dr. Clark received the "2007 Curtis W. Miles Community Service Award", given by the Faculty Forum Research, Service Faculty Development Committee.

 


                   
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