RSCJ Faculty

Dr. Clarke was Dean of the School of Criminal Justice from 1987-1998. Before moving to the United States in 1984, he was employed for fifteen years in the British government’s criminological research department, the Home Office Research and Planning Unit. He became the Director of the Unit in 1982. While at the Home Office, he jointly developed the rational choice perspective on crime with Derek Cornish and helped to launch the British Crime Survey. He also led the team that originated situational crime prevention and is now considered to be the world’s leading authority on that approach. Dr Clarke is the founding editor of Crime Prevention Studies and is author or joint author of more than 220 books, monographs and papers, most recently including Superhighway Robbery: Preventing E-commerce Crime (Willan Publishing, 2003), Become a Problem Solving Crime Analyst (U.S. Dept of Justice, 2005) and Outsmarting the Terrorists (Praeger, 2006). Dr Clarke is also the Associate Director of the Center for Problem-oriented Policing, a virtual institute (www.popcenter.org) supported by the US Office of Community Oriented Police Services.


Ronald Clarke Specialization: Rational choice theory; situational crime prevention; problem-oriented policing, crime analysis; wildlife crime University Professor Ph.D. (1968) University of London
Dr. Clarke was Dean of the School of Criminal Justice from 1987-1998. Before moving to the United States in 1984, he was employed for fifteen years in the British government’s criminological research department, the Home Office Research and Planning Unit. He became the Director of the Unit in 1982. While at the Home Office, he jointly developed the rational choice perspective on crime with Derek Cornish and helped to launch the British Crime Survey. He also led the team that originated situational crime prevention and is now considered to be the world’s leading authority on that approach. Dr Clarke is the founding editor of Crime Prevention Studies and is author or joint author of more than 220 books, monographs and papers, most recently including Superhighway Robbery: Preventing E-commerce Crime (Willan Publishing, 2003), Become a Problem Solving Crime Analyst (U.S. Dept of Justice, 2005) and Outsmarting the Terrorists (Praeger, 2006). Dr Clarke is also the Associate Director of the Center for Problem-oriented Policing, a virtual institute (www.popcenter.org) supported by the US Office of Community Oriented Police Services.

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School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University 123 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102 Phone: (973) 353-3311 Fax: (973) 353-5896
rclarke@newark.rutgers.edu