VITA

 

Michael Bruce Blankenship, Ph.D.

January 2007

cja.boisestate.edu/mblanken

 

PERSONAL  DATA

 

Present Position:

Professor of Criminal Justice

Boise State University

Boise, ID 83725

cja.boisestate.edu

 

Telephone:

Office ‑ (208) 426-2771

 

E-Mail:

mblanken@boisestate.edu

 

                                                       EDUCATION

 

Doctor of Philosophy, College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, 1988.

 

Master of Public Affairs, Department of Political Science and Public Affairs, Western Carolina University, 1984.

 

Bachelor of Science, Department of Criminal Justice, Western Carolina University, Magna Cum Laude, 1983.

 

Associate of Applied Science, Department of Criminal Justice, Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, 1981.

 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

 

Boise State University

 

Dean, College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, 2002 – present

 

Boise State University is home to approximately 18,500 students and offers over 150 undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates. Its endowment is approximately $73 million and its external grants and contracts exceeded $24 million last year. The University’s goal is to become a “metropolitan research university of distinction,” and is striving to meet the criteria as a Carnegie 1 – intensive institution.

 

The College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs enrolls approximately 3700 undergraduate and graduate students while producing 24% of the total institutional credit hours. The College’s annual operating budget is approximately $8 million. In FY2005, the College produced a record number of external grant submissions (32) and awards ($2.3 million). Its endowment is over $2 million (including restricted funds). The College has 84 tenured or tenure-track faculty and employs over 100 adjuncts each semester representing 10 academic disciplines. Twelve research and service units are also part of the College.

 

Major Accomplishments

·       initiated strategic planning as an integral function of the College

·       implemented a performance management system for faculty and chairs

·       implemented college-level fund-raising campaign

·       played a key role in developing state-wide institutional mission in public policy

·       serve on various external committees in the community

·       initiated new research centers (urban & regional planning, aging, and history & politics)

·       initiated new graduate programs (urban & regional planning, gerontology, anthropology)

·       interact with elected officials at federal, state, and local levels and with heads of agencies and organizations

 

East Tennessee State University

 

Director, Teaching and Learning Center, 2001-2002

 

The Teaching and Learning Center provided innovative programming aimed at improving the learning experience. The Center coordinated programs with other units on campus, especially those that focused on technology and provided a variety of mentoring services for faculty.

 

Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, 1998 – 2001

 

Producing over 50% of the credit hours for the institution, the 16 academic departments and various related units represented the largest college in the institution. The College is home to approximately 160 full-time faculty, and generates approximately $5 million in extramural funding each year.

 

Chair, 1994 - 1998; Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

         

The Department was home to over 500 undergraduates and 50 graduate students. During my service as chair the faculty increased from 8 to 10 tenured and tenure-track faculty and the number of graduate assistants increased from 6 to 15.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Council Of Colleges of Arts & Sciences – Deans and Development – 2003

 

Council for Advancement and Support of Education – Development for Deans – 2004

 

Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences – Deans and Development – 2004

 

Council for Advancement and Support of Education – Capital Ideas: Campaign Strategies, Tried, True, and New – 2005

 

Council for Advancement and Support of Education – Campaign Communications: This Time Its Personal - 2005

 

PUBLICATIONS

  Books

 

Vito, Gennaro F. and Michael B. Blankenship

 2002            Statistical analysis in criminal justice and criminology: A user’s guide. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

                   

Blankenship, Michael B. and Gennaro Vito

 1996            Your research: Data analysis for criminal justice and criminology (2nd ed.). St. Paul, MN:  West.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. (ed.)

 1993            Understanding corporate criminality.  New York:  Garland. (Reprinted in paperback 1995).

 

 Blankenship, Michael B. and Gennaro Vito

 1993            Your research: Data analysis for criminal justice and criminology.  St. Paul, MN:  West.

 

  Periodicals

 

Piquero, Nicole, Stephen Tibbetts and Michael Blankenship

2005           Examining the role of differential association and techniques of neutralization in explaining corporate crime. Deviant Behavior 26: 159-188.

 

Blevins, Kristie and Michael Blankenship

 2001            Inequalities in capital punishment in Tennessee based on race: An  analytical study of aggravating and mitigating factors in death penalty cases. University of Memphis Law Review 31(4):823-859.

 

Whitehead, John and Michael Blankenship

 2000            The gender gap in capital punishment attitudes: An analysis of support and opposition American Journal of Criminal Justice 25(1):1-13.

 

Tibbetts, Stephen and Michael Blankenship

 1999            Explaining citizens’ attitudes toward pornography: Differential effects of predictors across levels of geographic proximity to outlet sources. Justice Quarterly 16(4):735-763.

 

Whitehead, John, Michael Blankenship and John Wright

 1999            Elite vs. citizen attitudes in capital punishment: Incongruity between the public and policy makers. Journal of Criminal Justice 27(3):249-258.

 

Cullen, Francis T., John Wright, Shayna Brown, Melissa Moon, Michael B. Blankenship and Brandon Applegate

 1998            Public support for early intervention programs: Implications for a progressive policy agenda. Crime & Delinquency 44(2):187-204.

 

Blankenship, Michael B., James Luginbuhl, Francis T. Cullen and William Redick. 

 1997            Jurors’ comprehension of sentencing instructions: A test of the death penalty process in Tennessee. Justice Quarterly 14(2):325-351.

Wright, John P.,  Francis T. Cullen and Michael B. Blankenship

 1995            The social construction of corporate violence: Media coverage of the  Imperial Food Product Fire.  Crime & Delinquency 41(1):20-36. Reprinted in M. David Ermann and Richard J. Lundman (eds.) (1996 & 2002), Corporate and Governmental Deviance (5th  & 6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. and Stephen Brown

 1993            Paradigm or perspective?: A note to the discourse community. Journal of Crime and Justice 16:167-175.

 

Blankenship, Michael B., Richard Janikowski and Jerry Sparger                          

 1992            Accountability v. independence: Myths of judicial selection. Criminal Justice Policy Review  6:69-79.

 

Giacopassi, David J. and Michael B. Blankenship

 1991            The effect of criminal justice pedagogy on student attitudes.  American Journal of Criminal Justice 16:97-103.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. and James Moneymaker

 1991            Unsafe at any speed: The utility of police pursuits. American Journal  of Police 10:53‑59. Reprinted in Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III (eds.) (1997), Law Enforcement Operations and Management. New York: Garland.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. and David Giacopassi

 1990            Limitations of assessing attitudinal change among students of criminal justice. The Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1:255‑259.

 

Blankenship, Michael B., Richard Janikowski and Jerry Sparger                            

 1990            The impact of general education on criminal justice pedagogy. The Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1:87‑98.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. and Sandy Wachholz

 1989            Confronting ideology: The hidden agenda of criminological theory. The Quarterly Journal of Ideology 13:1‑9.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1987            Recruiting criminal justice majors: Developing a marketing approach. American Journal of Criminal Justice 12:115‑124.

 Book Chapters & Miscellaneous Manuscripts

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1999            Death penalty resources on the Internet. Criminal Justice Policy Review 10(1): 119-130.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1998            Is incarceration an appropriate sanction for the non-violent white-collar offender?  In Charles Fields (ed.), Controversial Issues in Corrections. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

Blankenship, Michael B. and Chau-Pu Chiang

 1996            Newgate prison.  In Marilyn McShane (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Corrections. New York:  Garland.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1988            Political control of the police. In William Bailey (ed.), Encyclopedia  of Police Sciences. New York:  Garland.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1986            Forecasting crime rates: Texas in the year 2000. Texas Police Journal October:1‑3, 21.

 

 Grants

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

  2006           Energy Policy Institute ($500,000). Department of Energy.

 

Blankenship, Michael B., and James Girvan

  2005           Center for Study of Aging ($400,000). Administration on Aging

 

Blankenship, Michael B., and James Girvan

 2004            Center for Study of Aging ($247,000). Administration on Aging.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1995            The Search for Vicarious Justice: An Examination of the Popularity of TV Crime Shows. East Tennessee State University Major Research Grant.

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

 1992            A Survey of Victimization in Memphis and Shelby County. Memphis State University Faculty Research Grant.

 


Book Reviews

 

Blankenship, Michael B.

1991                        Legal guide for police: Constitutional issues (2nd). Criminal Justice Review 16:300-302.

 

 Multimedia

 

PowerPoint presentations for Essentials of Sociology (2000) by J. Henslin. Allyn and Bacon: Boston.

 

PowerPoint presentations for Policing in America: A Balance of Forces (2001) by R. Langworthy & L. Travis. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.

 

 

CONSULTING & EXPERT TESTIMONY

 

Consultant (2000), National White-Collar Crime Center, Morgantown, WV.

 

Expert Witness on Juror Comprehension of Sentencing Instructions in Death Penalty Cases in Abu-Ali Abdur`Ramman v. Richard Bell (#3:96-0380) (via affidavit), U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, February 20, 1998

 

Southern States Police Benevolent Association. Job Satisfaction Survey of Sevierville (TN) Police Department, February 16, 1998.

 

Amicus Curiae Brief (with D. Aarons) on Comparative Proportionality Review in State of Tennessee v. Glenn Bernard Mann (#02S1-9609-CC-00077) to the Tennessee Supreme Court, December 9, 1997.

 

Expert Witness on Juror Comprehension of Sentencing Instructions in Death Penalty Cases in State of Tennessee v. Bobby Godsey (#S38,648), Sullivan County Criminal Court, March 7, 1997.

 

Expert Witness on Juror Comprehension of Sentencing Instructions in Death Penalty Cases in State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Patterson Bondurant (#7040-7041), Maury County, Tennessee Circuit Court, October 21, 1994.

 

Expert Witness on Juror Comprehension of Sentencing Instructions in Death Penalty Cases in Tony Leon Hayes v. State (89-6211-CF-AES),  Florida 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, February 1, 1994.

 

Peer Review Consultant to the National Institute of Justice, 1994 to Present.

 

 

EDITORIAL/REVIEWING  EXPERIENCE

 

 Editor

 

Issues in Criminal Justice, Garland Publishing (1998 - 2000).

American Journal of Criminal Justice (1993 - 1996).

Guest Editorship

 

Guest co-editor, with David Baker, for special edition of the Justice Professional, Volume 14 (Fall, 1999). Topic: Capital Punishment in the US: The Post-Furman Decades.

 

Guest co-editor, with Charles Fields, for special edition of the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 17 (Fall, 1992).  Topic: Law as Social Control

Guest editor for special edition of the American Journal of Police, Volume 10 (Spring, 1991).  Topic: Ethics and Policing

 

 Editorial Board

 

Member of Editorial Board of the American Journal of Criminal Justice (1991-1993)

Journals Reviewed For

 

Justice Quarterly                                                       American Journal of Police

Journal of Criminal Justice Education                          Police Studies

American Journal of Criminal Justice                          Criminal Justice Policy Review

Contemporary Criminal Justice                                   Justice Professional

Policing: An International Journal of                            Social Problems

  Police Strategies and Management                          Police Practice and Research

Criminology                                                                  

 

 Publishers Reviewed For

 

West Publishing                                    Brooks/Cole Publishing

Macmillian Publishing                             Roxbury Publishing

The Free Press                                     Wadsworth Publishing

Addison Wesley Longman                      Allyn & Bacon

 

PROFESSIONAL  SERVICE

 

 Elected Offices Held

 

President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association (1991)

Academic Program Reviews & Consulting

 

College of West Virginia, Beckley, WV, September, 2000.

Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, April 16-17, 1998.

 

 Annual Meetings

 

Program Chairperson for the 1998 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Annual  Meeting

Member of the Program Committee for 1994 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Annual Meeting

Program Chairperson for 1991 Southern Criminal Justice Association’s Annual Meeting

Member of the Program Committee for 1991 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Annual Meeting

Member of the Program Committee for 1989 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Annual Meeting

 

Committees

 

Member of Membership Committee for American Society of Criminology (2001)

Member of Awards Committee for Southern Criminal Justice Association (2000)

Member of Strategic Planning Advisory Board for Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1992-1994)

Member of the Student Affairs Committee for Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1992-93)

Chairperson for the International Paper Competition Cosponsored by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (1989‑90)

Member of the Southern Criminal Justice Association's "Educator of the Year" Award Committee (1989)

Chairperson of the International Committee of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1988)

Member of the International Committee of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1987)

 Service

 

Boise State University

 

University Foundation Strategic Planning Committee (2006 – Present)

University Audit Committee (2006 – Present)

Co-chair Internationalization Task Force (2005 – 2006)

Chair Academic Information Technology Advisory Committee (2004 – 2006)

Library Dean Search Committee (2005)
NCAA Compliance Committee (2005 – Present)

Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (2003 – 2004)

City of Boise Police Chief Search Committee (2004)

City-University Working Group (2004 – Present)

Idaho Mental Health Coalition (2004 – Present)

 

East Tennessee State University

 

Advisory Committee, Student Assessment of Instruction (2002)

Collegis Assessment Committee (2002)

Cultural Diversity Council (2001-2002)

SACS Quality Enhancement Plan – Off-Campus Committee (2001)

WWW Acceptable Use Subcommittee (2000-2002)

SACS Subcommittee on Distance Education (2001)

Committee on Common Rubric/Numbering Conversion (2000)

College Tenure and Promotion Committee (2000)

Faculty Technology Leadership Committee (2000–2001) Chair (2001-2002)

Online Courses Committee (2000-2002)

Tennessee Board of Regents – Task Force for Asynchronous Learning (2000)

University Equipment Task Force (2000)

Research Development Committee (1999-2002)

Continuous Improvement Team - World Wide Web (1999-2000)

Continuous Improvement Team - Research (1999) (Chair of 2 subcommittees)

Committee to Assess Technology Support (1999-2000)

Departmental Honors Program Committee (1999)

Departmental Curriculum Committee (1999)

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Director’s Search Committee (1999)

Chair for Department of Social Work Chair’s Search Committee (1999 & 2001)

Arts & Sciences Dean’s Search Committee (1997)

General Education Advisory Committee (1995)

Basler Chair of Excellence Steering Committee (1994-1995)

College Information Resources Committee (1993-1994)

Chairperson for University College Committees (1988-1993)

General Education Coordinator (1988‑1992)

College Curriculum Committee  (1988‑1992)

Library Acquisitions Coordinator (1988‑1992)

 
Memphis State University

 

Member of Dissertation Committee in College of Education (1991)

Memphis State Speaker's Bureau (1990)

Member of Board of Directors for Dismas House (1990‑1991)      

Faculty Advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma Chapter of Criminal Justice Honor Society 1989‑1992)

Peer/Mentor Program for Scholars (1990)

Chairperson for Faculty Search Committee (1990)

Honors Program Coordinator (1990‑1992)

Departmental Coordinator for Undergraduate Research Forum (1991-1992)

Supervise Departmental Microcomputer Lab (1988-1992)

 

 

ORGANIZATIONAL  MEMBERSHIPS

 

Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

American Society of Criminology

Southern Criminal Justice Association

 

INVITED LECTURES/SPEECHES/WORKSHOPS

 

Idaho Sheriff’s Association, February 7, 2006. Topic: Professions and Professionalism: Policing in a Time of Change.

 

Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Conference, April 27, 2004. Topic: Institute for Urban and Regional Planning

 

Tennessee Board of Regents @ the Renaissance Center, July 12-13, 2001. Topic: Using PowerPoint for Presentations and Online Course Materials.

 

University of Louisville. March 19-20, 2001. Topic: Teaching and Learning on the Internet.


Ohio University. January 18, 2001. Topic: Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Empirical Challenges to America’s Capital Punishment Industry.

 

Tennessee Public Defenders Annual Meeting. October 19, 1999. Topic: Multimedia Presentations in Court and Jury Selection in Capital Cases.

 

Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. April 24-25, 1998. Topic: Helping Capital Jurors Understand Their Duties.

 

Washington and Lee University, School of Law. December 9, 1997. Topic: The Role of Social Science in Developing Knowledge About Capital Punishment.

 

University of Cincinnati,  January 7, 1994. Topic: Ethics in Policing and Criminal Justice.

 

AWARDS

 

Tennessee Board of Regents Distance Education Innovations Award (1999)

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Anderson Outstanding Paper Award (1995)

Outstanding Criminal Justice Educator Award, Southern Criminal Justice Association (1994)

Alpha Phi Sigma, Honor Society in Criminal Justice (1984)

Pi Gamma Mu, Honor Society in Social Science (1983)

Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate, State of North Carolina (1983)

 

ACADEMIC  EXPERIENCE

 

Professor, Department of Criminal Justice Administration, 2002 – Present, Boise State University

 

          Teaching Responsibilities:

 

The Death Penalty in America (Internet-Enhanced, Graduate & Undergraduate)

          Criminal Justice Management (Undergraduate)

 

Visiting Professor, Department of Justice Administration, 2002, University of Louisville.

 

          Teaching Responsibilities:

 

          Introduction to Criminal Justice (Online)

          Introduction to Law Enforcement (Online)

 

Associate Professor, 1995 – 2001; Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, 2001 – 2002; Department of Sociology, East Tennessee State University

 

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

Introduction to Criminal Justice (Internet-Enhanced)

Law, Society, and Criminal Justice (Graduate)

Death Penalty in America (Graduate & Undergraduate, Internet-Enhanced)

Police in America (Graduate & Undergraduate) (Internet-Enhanced)         

Violence: The American Experience (Graduate & Undergraduate)

Research Methods (Criminal Justice & Social Work Depts.) (Internet-Enhanced)

White-Collar Crime (Internet-Enhanced)

Statistics (Online & Internet-Enhanced)

Criminology (Internet-Enhanced)

Microcomputers as a Research Tool (Internet-Enhanced)

          Technology Leadership in Higher Education I (Internet-Enhanced, Graduate)

          Technology Leadership in Higher Education II (Internet-Enhanced, Graduate)

          Successful Online Learning (Online)

          Using Information Technology (Online)

          Advanced Information Technology (Online)

 

Assistant Professor, 1993 - 1995; Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, East Tennessee State University

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

Research Methods (Graduate & Undergraduate)

Criminology

White-Collar Crime (Graduate)

Contemporary Issues in Criminology (Graduate)

Law, Society, and Criminal Justice (Graduate)

 

Assistant Professor, 1987 ‑ 1993, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Memphis State University

 

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Concepts and Issues in Criminal Justice

Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Research Methods in Criminal Justice (Graduate & Undergraduate)

Statistical Methods in Criminal Justice

Corporate and White‑Collar Crime

Law and Society

Policy Formulation and Analysis (Graduate)

Survey Research Practicum (Honors)

 

Instructor, 1985 ‑ 1987, Lee College, Baytown, TX

 

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

American Government

Criminology

 

Classes consisted of inmates confined to the Texas Department of Corrections.

 

Instructor, 1982 ‑ 1983, Criminal Justice Department, Asheville‑Buncombe Technical College

 

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

Judicial Process

Juvenile Delinquency

 

Police Officer, 1976 ‑ 1983, Asheville Police Department, Asheville, NC

 

Assignments and Responsibilities:

 

General uniform patrol

Instructor in the police academy

Field training officer

Chemical testing for alcohol

Crime scene technician and photographer

Major motor vehicle accident investigator

Coordinator for in‑service training

Employment screening of personnel