Daniel LeClair

Dr. LeClair oversees the Applied Social Sciences programs in urban affairs, city planning, criminal justice, applied sociology, and applied psychology, as well as the Prison Education Program. He also directs Boston University’s online criminal justice master’s degree program. Previously, LeClair served as director of research at the Massachusetts Department of Correction, and he is currently involved in two research projects addressing addiction recovery and prison reform. LeClair lectures internationally on many topics, including online education, criminal justice, recidivism, rehabilitation, and substance abuse. He currently teaches courses in victimology, white-collar crime, the sociology of prisons, and research methods in criminal justice settings. In the urban affairs and city planning programs, LeClair teaches special topics in urban architecture, urban history and urban development.