Wesley Jennings

Wesley Glenn Jennings is an American criminologist.

Career

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. He is the former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and the co-editor of Policing: An International Journal.