Todd R. Clear

Todd R. Clear is an American criminologist who serves as a university professor at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, after earlier serving as dean of the university's School of Criminal Justice. He is among the most frequently cited scholars in criminal justice and is best known for his research on the effects of mass incarceration on disadvantaged communities, developed at length in his book Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse. He 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, and he founded the NJ-STEP program bringing college education to incarcerated students in New Jersey.