| Wesley G. Jennings | |
| Birth Date: | 17 September 1980 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Criminology |
| Workplaces: | University of South Florida, Texas State University |
| Education: | University of South Carolina, University of Florida |
| Thesis Title: | Trajectories of two Racine Birth Cohorts: a theoretically integrated model for explaining offending |
| Thesis Url: | http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021608/00001 |
| Thesis Year: | 2007 |
| Doctoral Advisors: | )--> |
| Academic Advisors: | Alex R. Piquero, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce |
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Wesley Glenn Jennings (born September 17, 1980)[1] is an American criminologist.
He is currently a professor and department chair in the Department of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. He was previously a professor and coordinator of the doctoral program in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University and associate professor in the Department of Criminology at University of South Florida, where he was also the Department's associate chairman and undergraduate director. He has previously been recognized as the #1 criminologist in the world in a 2012 paper in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.[2] [3] He is the former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and (with Lorie Fridell) the co-editor of .[4]
Jennings has studied the effectiveness of police use of body-worn cameras in Orlando, Florida.[5] [6] [7]