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W. RICHARD JANIKOWSKI
- Richard Janikowski is Director of the Center for Community Criminology and Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Urban Child Institute. He has published on issues concerning criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminology. Co-Author of Legality and Illegality, published by Peter Lang Publishing. Professor Janikowski is currently completing a book on constitutional criminal procedure. His current research interests focus on collaborations among local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies to reduce violent and gang crime. Professor Janikowski has worked extensively with the Memphis Police Department, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, the Shelby County Sheriff 's Office, and many other law enforcement agencies on a variety of projects. He was the Principal Investigator for the Memphis Sexual Assault Research project, a part of the United States Department of Justice 's Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) and is currently the Principal Investigator for the Memphis Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative. In addition, he is the research partner for the Memphis Police Department 's Blue C.R.U.S.H. strategy targeting "hotspots" of violent and property crime in Memphis. Professor Janikowski has worked extensively with gang units in both the Memphis Police Department and the Shelby County Sheriff 's Office and provided data analysis and research on gangs to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. Professor Janikowski has served as a consultant and trainer for the U.S. Department of Justice 's National Institute of Justice and its Bureau of Justice Assistance; he has also served on the editorial boards and acted as a peer reviewer for numerous criminology journals. At present, Professor Janikowski is supervising the development of the Shared Urban Data System (designed to operate in conjunction with the Community Safety Information System developed by the National Institute of Justice as part of SACSI). He has lectured extensively and trained police officers on gangs, youth violence, violent crime, problem-solving policing, and crime analysis.
rjankwsk@memphis.edu
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ELISABETH HENDERSON
- Elisabeth R. Henderson, M.A., is the Research Coordinator for the Center for Community Criminology and Research at the University of Memphis. She joined the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in March 2001 to assist in the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) in its attempt to reduce the number of sexual assaults in Memphis. Since then, she has continued to assist law enforcement agencies by providing research to the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Initiative and the Memphis Police Department's Blue C.R.U.S.H. strategy, as well as other criminal justice initiatives. Prior to joining the University of Memphis, Ms. Henderson worked as the Project Coordinator for the Department of Preventive Medicine for the University of Tennessee-Memphis where she assisted in the planning, implementation, and outcome evaluation of community programs related to violence prevention and children's health. She also worked for the Memphis Police Department as the manager of a Department of Justice COPS grant studying commercial burglaries. Ms. Henderson received her MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Memphis in August of 1998.
erhndrsn@memphis.edu
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SCOTT BLANKENBECKLER
- Scott K. Blankenbeckler has his bachelors from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. For 15 years, Mr. Blankenbeckler has worked with GIS and Mapping technologies. He started his mapping career while in the U.S. Airforce and has since worked for the University of Memphis in the Department of Anthropology. Mr. Blankenbeckler is now the GIS Systems Programmer at the Center for Community Criminology and Research, where he teaches GA's and staff on the use of GIS. He also provides GIS assistance to various local and regional law enforcement agencies and law enforcement related agencies. Mr. Blankenbeckler has conducted several seminars to law enforcement audiences on the use of Crime Mapping for Police.
sblnknbc@memphis.edu
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LINDSAY REED
- Lindsay Reed received her BA in Psychology at the University of Memphis in 2002. After a brief and unprofitable stint as a starving artist, she came to the Center for Community Criminology and Research as a starving part-time research assistant. She continued working at the Center as a graduate student on projects such as the Community Institute for Early Childhood and Project Safe Neighborhoods. She received her MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Memphis in 2004. Ms. Reed is currently a Research Associate conducting analysis for the Memphis Police Department's Blue C.R.U.S.H. strategy and other criminal justice initiatives, as well as providing training in SPSS and ArcGIS.
lrreed@memphis.edu
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GEORGE DUDLEY
- George graduated from Humboldt State University in California in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance and a minor in Geology. He spent the next several years in a variety of jobs before deciding to move to New York to be an actor, and met with a fair amount of success over the next decade and a half. While in New York he attended the Parsons School of Design, coming away with a certification in web design. He also managed to acquire a wide variety of other computer skills along the way.
After leaving the bustle of New York for the relative tranquility of Memphis, he was fortunate enough to find a position at the Center for Community Criminology and Research. He is kept busy at the Center doing various design projects (this website, for example) and applying his ever-growing GIS skills to the many projects underway at CCCR. George is currently working on a self-designed Master's degree in Data Translation and Visual Communication.
gdudley@memphis.edu
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BRIGITTE BILLEAUDEAUX
- Brigitte Billeaudeaux began working with C3R in the summer of 2005 as a graduate assistant for SUDS and has more recently been added as a full time research associate in May 2007. Brigitte graduated from The University of Memphis in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and obtained her master's degree in May 2007 in Applied Urban Anthropology with a certificate in Museum Studies. Her work with C3R has included updates for the First Years Child Services Directory, working with the Memphis Public Library and Information Center to help them redefine their service areas based on geo spatial mapping techniques and demographic information, and employing GIS mapping to help perform spatial analysis for selected research projects for the Center for Community Criminology & Research. Currently she is working with the Department of Children's Services by adapting the model used in the analysis for the Memphis Police Department's Blue C.R.U.S.H. strategy to help analyze the Department of Children's Services' programs and other initiatives.
bbilledx@memphis.edu
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