Silas Nogueira de Melo

Silas N. Melo is an associate professor of Geography at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão (Brazil), where he researches spatial criminology and cartography of violence. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (Centre International de Criminologie Comparée – CiCC), Université Montréal, Quebec. He is part of the Reintegrate Program (Programa Reintegrar) team, Brazil’s first in-person higher education initiative.