Richard Clark, a Criminologist, is a professor in the Sociology and Criminology Department at John Carroll University. Among the courses he teaches is a class on the death penalty, and an Inside-Out Prison Education course held at a women’s prison in Cleveland. The course consists of ten women prisoners and ten traditional undergraduate John Carroll Students. Working with Jesuit World-Wide Learning, he also teaches an online Human Rights-Women’s Rights course to refugees located in various refugee camps in Africa and Asia.
Active in many social justice issues, he has received the John Carroll University Curtis W. Miles Community Service Award and the Lucrezia Cullicchia Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.