POP Center Biographies Dennis Mares

Dennis Mares 

 Dennis Mares is a professor of Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Mares’ research focuses on spatial and temporal aspects of violent offending, and his work has been published in criminological and interdisciplinary journals such as the Journal of Experimental Criminology, the Journal of Urban Health, and Environment and Behavior. He actively works with law enforcement agencies’ evaluation gunshot detection systems and other types of police technology. He is currently working on two Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) projects, evaluating the efficacy of mobile surveillance trailers in St. Louis and developing a problem-oriented approach with acoustic gunshot detection systems. Mares received his M.A. and Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and he completed his undergraduate work in cultural anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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E-mail: dmares@siue.edu

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