J A Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 20858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2813-7992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Financial incentives for police recruitment and retention: Perceived effectiveness and tradeoffs
Police agencies continually struggle to attract and retain officers. Social exchange theory, suggesting that employees develop expectations of reciprocity with employers, provides one lens to examine such efforts. This work assesses 29 financial tactics, identified through a systematic review of sources, that police agencies may use to recruit and retain officers. It reports practitioner perceptions regarding these tactics on workforce levels, Pa…
You are Replaceable”: A Social Exchange Analysis of Correctional Officer Burnout and Attrition
Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) unde…
Learning, adaptation, and the complexity of human and natural interactions in the ocean
Here, I explore the system-level consequences of learning and adaptation among fish and fishers. The fundamental idea is that the cost of acquiring the knowledge needed to resolve uncertainty is the principal driver of social and spatial organization. This cost limits agents' actions and leads them to prefer relatively persistent associations with familiar agents and places. When all agents act in this way, the regularity and self-reinforcing nat…
How access to Maine⬢s fisheries has changed over a quarter century: The cumulative effects of licensing on resilience
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Cod Fisheries of the North Atlantic
Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua has been subject to commercial exploitation since the thirteenth century. An analysis of cod fisheries over space and time reveals a pattern of serial depletion that reflects the cross-scale interaction of fish population structure, economic incentives, developments in fishing technology, and government efforts to limit access to fishing areas. Three case studies from Newfoundland and Labrador, the larger Northwest Atlan…
Individual transferable quotas and conservation: A Critical Assessment
Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have become a popular management tool for fisheries. They have been promoted in some quarters and seriously criticized in others because of their social and economic impacts. A more serious problem is that ITQs provide exclusive access to public resources presumably in return for some public benefit, namely conservation; however, in a high percentage of cases they do not conserve fish stocks. In this article,…
Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: The Role and Perception of Fishers' Ecological Knowledge
Nenadovic, M., T. Johnson, and J. Wilson. 2012. Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: the role and perception of fishers’ ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society 17(1): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04431-170120
Voluntary Participation in Regional Fisheries Management Council Meetings
Insufficient and unrepresentative participation in voluntary public hearings and policy discussions has been problematic since Aristotle's time. In fisheries, research has shown that involvement is dominated by financially resourceful and extreme-opinion stakeholders and tends to advantage groups that have a lower cost of attendance. Stakeholders may exhibit only one or all of these traits but can be still similarly advantaged. The opposites of t…
Globus Sensation and Psychopathology in Men: The Vietnam Experience Study
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether globus is associated with psychopathology in men. Globus-a persistent sensation of having a lump in the throat with no detectable physical cause-has long been thought a predominantly female disorder. Several small studies, based wholly or largely on women, suggested that globus is associated with higher levels of depression, anxiety, and somatic concern. METHODS: Participants were 4240 male U.S. veterans who underwent…
Scale and Costs of Fishery Conservation
Observation and measurement of the ocean's ecosystems is demanding and costly. It makes verification of our theories difficult and forces us to engage in collective action based upon often very imperfect concepts of the dynamics of the system. Once we establish the institutions of col-lective action we adopt 'official' conceptions of system dynamics and generate expectations about how the natural system will react to our collective actions. In re…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources
Overfishing is increasingly threatening the world's marine ecosystems (1, 2). The search for the social causes of this crisis has often focused on inappropriate approaches to governance and lack of incentives for conservation (3, 4). Little attention, however, has been paid to the critical impact of sequential exploitation: the spatially expanding depletion of harvested species (5). The economist Mancur Olson (6) argued that local governance crea…
Good Intentions Meet Hard Realities: An Evaluation of the Project Greenlight Reentry Program
Research Summary: The literature on correctional interventions (“What Works”) suggests that programs incorporating multimodal or cognitive-behavioral skills training consistently show moderate results in reducing offender recidivism. Project Greenlight was an innovative, short-term, prison-based reentry program that drew extensively from that literature. Survival analyses show that intervention participants performed significantly worse on multip…
Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems
Lebel, L., J. M. Anderies, B. Campbell, C. Folke, S. Hatfield-Dodds, T. P. Hughes. and J. Wilson. 2006. Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01606-110119
Bad Behavior or Bad Policy? An Examination of Tennessee Release Cohorts, 1993–2001
Research Summary: Few studies have examined time‐based variations in recidivism rates despite the substantial variation that seems to be characteristic of some states. A recent publication by the Tennessee Department of Correction indicates that reincarceration rates increased significantly for parole release cohorts from 1993 to 1997. I reexamine the Tennessee data with additional years and confirm the sharp increase in reincarceration rates, al…
Human–ecosystem interactions: A dynamic integrated model
Ecological economics and sustainable governance of the oceans
Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social–ecological system
The Predictive Validity of Student Self- Evaluations, Teachers' Assessments, and Grades for Performance on the Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Ability Scales of the Differential Aptitude Test for a Sam…
For a sample of 301 8th- through 12th-grade students attending four rural schools located in Appalachia, an examination was made of the ability of several school-related variables including student self-evaluations, teachers' assessments, and grades to predict performance on two scales of the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) (Verbal Reasoning-VR and Numerical Ability-NA). In addition, the accuracy of student self-evaluations on both the VR and th…
Covert psychiatric disturbance in patients with globus pharyngis
There is currently little agreement concerning the aetiology of globus pharyngis (néc hystericus), and both physical and psychological factors have been suggested as primary causes of this common disorder. Using validated research questionnaires we tested the hypothesis that there is significant psychiatric morbidity in female globus patients but not in males. One hundred and twenty‐one globus patients (90F, 31M) were tested on the Crown‐Crisp Ex…
Manpower Planning and the Staffing Needs of Schools
How Many Teaching Styles? How Much Progress
The Structure of Oliver's ‘Survey of Opinions About Education’
S ummary . Oliver's Survey of Opinions about Education was completed by 424 teachers in a probability sample of 50 Northern Ireland post‐primary schools. Fee's binary target matrix procedure was used to transform a principal components' solution of the item correlation matrix to a factor solution congruent with the hypothesised scale dimensions of Naturalism, Radicalism and Tender‐mindedness. The analysis confirmed the presence of a strong Tender…
The Educational Priority School
S ummary . The study was designed to establish, on a regional basis, the validity of a set of measures of social handicap as predictive of educational backwardness and to identify the characteristics of those schools which are most effectively compensatory in adverse social conditions. Backwardness was defined in relation to scores on standardised intellectual tests for 7‐year‐old and 10‐year‐old children attending 115 Northern Ireland primary sc…
Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems
Lebel, L., J. M. Anderies, B. Campbell, C. Folke, S. Hatfield-Dodds, T. P. Hughes. and J. Wilson. 2006. Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01606-110119
Good Intentions Meet Hard Realities: An Evaluation of the Project Greenlight Reentry Program
Research Summary: The literature on correctional interventions (“What Works”) suggests that programs incorporating multimodal or cognitive-behavioral skills training consistently show moderate results in reducing offender recidivism. Project Greenlight was an innovative, short-term, prison-based reentry program that drew extensively from that literature. Survival analyses show that intervention participants performed significantly worse on multip…
Bad Behavior or Bad Policy? An Examination of Tennessee Release Cohorts, 1993–2001
Research Summary: Few studies have examined time‐based variations in recidivism rates despite the substantial variation that seems to be characteristic of some states. A recent publication by the Tennessee Department of Correction indicates that reincarceration rates increased significantly for parole release cohorts from 1993 to 1997. I reexamine the Tennessee data with additional years and confirm the sharp increase in reincarceration rates, al…
How access to Maine⬢s fisheries has changed over a quarter century: The cumulative effects of licensing on resilience
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
An Eeg Investigation of Awareness During Anaesthesia
Previous studies of awareness during anaesthesia have used patients undergoing surgery. In an attempt to overcome the complications of anxiety and specific stimuli of surgery, this study used healthy volunteers in a laboratory setting. No evidence of recall of events taking place during light anaesthesia was found
Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) unde…
Individual transferable quotas and conservation: A Critical Assessment
Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have become a popular management tool for fisheries. They have been promoted in some quarters and seriously criticized in others because of their social and economic impacts. A more serious problem is that ITQs provide exclusive access to public resources presumably in return for some public benefit, namely conservation; however, in a high percentage of cases they do not conserve fish stocks. In this article,…
Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: The Role and Perception of Fishers' Ecological Knowledge
Nenadovic, M., T. Johnson, and J. Wilson. 2012. Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: the role and perception of fishers’ ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society 17(1): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04431-170120
Scale and Costs of Fishery Conservation
Observation and measurement of the ocean's ecosystems is demanding and costly. It makes verification of our theories difficult and forces us to engage in collective action based upon often very imperfect concepts of the dynamics of the system. Once we establish the institutions of col-lective action we adopt 'official' conceptions of system dynamics and generate expectations about how the natural system will react to our collective actions. In re…
The Impossible Colonnade and Other Variations of a Well‐known Figure
An Eeg Investigation of Awareness During Anaesthesia
Previous studies of awareness during anaesthesia have used patients undergoing surgery. In an attempt to overcome the complications of anxiety and specific stimuli of surgery, this study used healthy volunteers in a laboratory setting. No evidence of recall of events taking place during light anaesthesia was found
The Educational Priority School
S ummary . The study was designed to establish, on a regional basis, the validity of a set of measures of social handicap as predictive of educational backwardness and to identify the characteristics of those schools which are most effectively compensatory in adverse social conditions. Backwardness was defined in relation to scores on standardised intellectual tests for 7‐year‐old and 10‐year‐old children attending 115 Northern Ireland primary sc…
Developmental and Social Interaction in Categories of Word‐definition
S ummary . Responses to the Terman‐Merrill Vocabulary Test, Form L‐M, of 100 children at each of five age‐levels from 6 to 14 years in a judgment sample of 65 Northern Ireland schools were scored for 10 categories of definition. Factor analysis confirmed that two categories, Synonym and Explanation, might be combined as Abstract responses. Ordered stepwise regression confirmed the significance, as hypothesised, of age, occupation and joint age‐by…
The Structure of Oliver's ‘Survey of Opinions About Education’
S ummary . Oliver's Survey of Opinions about Education was completed by 424 teachers in a probability sample of 50 Northern Ireland post‐primary schools. Fee's binary target matrix procedure was used to transform a principal components' solution of the item correlation matrix to a factor solution congruent with the hypothesised scale dimensions of Naturalism, Radicalism and Tender‐mindedness. The analysis confirmed the presence of a strong Tender…
How Many Teaching Styles? How Much Progress
Manpower Planning and the Staffing Needs of Schools
Covert psychiatric disturbance in patients with globus pharyngis
There is currently little agreement concerning the aetiology of globus pharyngis (néc hystericus), and both physical and psychological factors have been suggested as primary causes of this common disorder. Using validated research questionnaires we tested the hypothesis that there is significant psychiatric morbidity in female globus patients but not in males. One hundred and twenty‐one globus patients (90F, 31M) were tested on the Crown‐Crisp Ex…
The Predictive Validity of Student Self- Evaluations, Teachers' Assessments, and Grades for Performance on the Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Ability Scales of the Differential Aptitude Test for a Sam…
For a sample of 301 8th- through 12th-grade students attending four rural schools located in Appalachia, an examination was made of the ability of several school-related variables including student self-evaluations, teachers' assessments, and grades to predict performance on two scales of the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) (Verbal Reasoning-VR and Numerical Ability-NA). In addition, the accuracy of student self-evaluations on both the VR and th…
Human–ecosystem interactions: A dynamic integrated model
Ecological economics and sustainable governance of the oceans
Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social–ecological system
Bad Behavior or Bad Policy? An Examination of Tennessee Release Cohorts, 1993–2001
Research Summary: Few studies have examined time‐based variations in recidivism rates despite the substantial variation that seems to be characteristic of some states. A recent publication by the Tennessee Department of Correction indicates that reincarceration rates increased significantly for parole release cohorts from 1993 to 1997. I reexamine the Tennessee data with additional years and confirm the sharp increase in reincarceration rates, al…
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources
Overfishing is increasingly threatening the world's marine ecosystems (1, 2). The search for the social causes of this crisis has often focused on inappropriate approaches to governance and lack of incentives for conservation (3, 4). Little attention, however, has been paid to the critical impact of sequential exploitation: the spatially expanding depletion of harvested species (5). The economist Mancur Olson (6) argued that local governance crea…
Good Intentions Meet Hard Realities: An Evaluation of the Project Greenlight Reentry Program
Research Summary: The literature on correctional interventions (“What Works”) suggests that programs incorporating multimodal or cognitive-behavioral skills training consistently show moderate results in reducing offender recidivism. Project Greenlight was an innovative, short-term, prison-based reentry program that drew extensively from that literature. Survival analyses show that intervention participants performed significantly worse on multip…
Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems
Lebel, L., J. M. Anderies, B. Campbell, C. Folke, S. Hatfield-Dodds, T. P. Hughes. and J. Wilson. 2006. Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01606-110119
Scale and Costs of Fishery Conservation
Observation and measurement of the ocean's ecosystems is demanding and costly. It makes verification of our theories difficult and forces us to engage in collective action based upon often very imperfect concepts of the dynamics of the system. Once we establish the institutions of col-lective action we adopt 'official' conceptions of system dynamics and generate expectations about how the natural system will react to our collective actions. In re…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Globus Sensation and Psychopathology in Men: The Vietnam Experience Study
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether globus is associated with psychopathology in men. Globus-a persistent sensation of having a lump in the throat with no detectable physical cause-has long been thought a predominantly female disorder. Several small studies, based wholly or largely on women, suggested that globus is associated with higher levels of depression, anxiety, and somatic concern. METHODS: Participants were 4240 male U.S. veterans who underwent…
Voluntary Participation in Regional Fisheries Management Council Meetings
Insufficient and unrepresentative participation in voluntary public hearings and policy discussions has been problematic since Aristotle's time. In fisheries, research has shown that involvement is dominated by financially resourceful and extreme-opinion stakeholders and tends to advantage groups that have a lower cost of attendance. Stakeholders may exhibit only one or all of these traits but can be still similarly advantaged. The opposites of t…
Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: The Role and Perception of Fishers' Ecological Knowledge
Nenadovic, M., T. Johnson, and J. Wilson. 2012. Implementing the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure: the role and perception of fishers’ ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society 17(1): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04431-170120
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Cod Fisheries of the North Atlantic
Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua has been subject to commercial exploitation since the thirteenth century. An analysis of cod fisheries over space and time reveals a pattern of serial depletion that reflects the cross-scale interaction of fish population structure, economic incentives, developments in fishing technology, and government efforts to limit access to fishing areas. Three case studies from Newfoundland and Labrador, the larger Northwest Atlan…
Individual transferable quotas and conservation: A Critical Assessment
Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have become a popular management tool for fisheries. They have been promoted in some quarters and seriously criticized in others because of their social and economic impacts. A more serious problem is that ITQs provide exclusive access to public resources presumably in return for some public benefit, namely conservation; however, in a high percentage of cases they do not conserve fish stocks. In this article,…
How access to Maine⬢s fisheries has changed over a quarter century: The cumulative effects of licensing on resilience
Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) unde…
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