Ronald Victor Gemuseus Clarke (born 24 April 1941) is a British criminologist and University Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark.
[1] Before joining the faculty of Rutgers' Newark campus, Clarke did criminological research for the Home Office for fifteen years in his native United Kingdom.
At the Home Office, he helped develop rational choice theory in criminology and launch the British Crime Survey.
[2] In 1987, he joined Rutgers University-Newark as the dean of their School of Criminal Justice, a position he held until 1998.
He was the co-recipient of the 2015 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, along with Patricia Mayhew, in honor of their work in situational crime prevention.