Title
Assistant ProfessorOffice Building
Psychology, Sociology and Rural StudiesOffice
209Mailing Address
Ag Engineering 209School of Psych, Soc & Rural Studies-Box 2120
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Biography
Dr. Dylan Spencer is an assistant professor in the School of Psychology, Sociology, and Rural Studies. His primary research focuses on the geography of crime. He applies this focus to other research areas such as wildlife crime, evidence-based crime prevention, and policing. As a quantitative researcher, Dr. Spencer works extensively with large datasets from a variety of agencies and organizations. His research has utilized a wide range of analytic techniques, both spatial and non-spatial. The following analyses and research designs are a few examples he has used: a meta-analysis, multi-level models, machine learning, and occupancy models.Education
Ph.D. 2022, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal JusticeM.A. 2018, Radford University, Criminal Justice
B.S. 2014, Virginia Tech, Forest Resources & Environmental Conservation
Area(s) of Research
Crime and placeWildlife crime
Crime prevention
Policing
Department(s)
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School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies