Eric L Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 318918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric L Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2462-1162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The name of things”
Something important has been forgotten in environmental and sustainability education: teaching ecological literacy. The concept was introduced as an educational field by David Orr, who argued for systemic thinking as well as educating for a sense of place. However, Orr’s ecological literacy did not include the basis for understanding functions of the ecosystems: the names of species and other nature phenomena. This knowledge has generally fallen …
In Memoriam
Between exploration and tourism
In the spring of 1826, the young Danish naval officer Carl Irminger and two of his friends sailed with a cargo ship from Copenhagen to Iceland to stay there during the summer. This article is based on Irminger’s unpublished travel diary. Irminger and his friends blended in with the local elite, which provided them with equipment and contacts to travel. Their journeys out from Reykjavik were adventurous and depended on local guides and the hospita…
Through Internet and Friends
Air pollution is estimated to cause more than 7000 deaths annually in Sweden alone. To reduce the impact of air pollution and to plan and build sustainable cities, it is vital that research is translated into efficient decisions and practice. However, how do civil servants in a municipality access research results? How do they normally find relevant information, and what obstacles are there to accessing and applying research results? As part of t…
Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level
Fifteen years ago, Jensen, Gerber, and Mosher drew attention to the societal costs of the U.S. war on drugs. They argued that while criminologists had focused on the impact of this war on the U.S. criminal justice system, other impacts had been under-researched. Whereas some research along these lines has been done that we review here briefly, some of the “objective” conditions of the war on drugs have changed in the intervening years. The primar…
Conspicuous conservation
Focusing on the notion of 'green clothing', this article shows how a sartorial aesthetic informs group cohesion for environmentalist activists. Using qualitative data gathered through open-ended questions posted on the Field Biologists's Facebook group, which is no longer active, the article explores subjects' memories and opinions on clothing and style covering the period from the late 1960s to the present. The article mixes this method with his…
Ekologisk läskunnighet och naturrelationernas abstraktion i Antropocen
For the longer part of humanity’s history, knowledge about nature has been sensual, physical and concrete. Language has reflected a refined and direct relation to living surroundings. With the emergence of modernity, and urbanisation, a more abstract and general relation to nature was introduced. As common schooling started in Sweden, in the 1840s, this more abstract relation to nature was introduced to, and taught to children. Even pedagogy went…
Field observations of the developing legal recreational cannabis economy in Washington State
Drug War American Style
About the Authors. 1. The Internationalization of US Illicit Drug Control Policy Jurg Gerber and Eric L. Jensen 2. Toward an Explanation of the Persistence of Failed Policy: Binding Drug Policy to Foreign Policy, 1930-1962 Kevin F. Ryan 3. The International System of Drug Control: Developments and Trends Hans-Jorg Albrecht 4. Hong Kong Mark S. Gaylord 5. American Influence on British Drug Policy Philip Bean 6. Drug Policy in Australia - Our Own? …
Drug War American Style
Adult Drug Treatment Courts
Drug treatment courts (DTCs), an alternative to traditional criminal courts, provide an innovative way to legally process some drug offenders. The origin and recent growth of the drug court system in the USA can be explained as an unintended consequence of a failing ‘war on drugs’. In this article, we discuss the spread of adult DTCs throughout the USA, the main components of drug courts, controversies surrounding DTCs, and some criticisms of dru…
Encyclopedia of White-Collar Crime
The high profile collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen are recent examples of corporate scandals that have rocked the business world. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the history and current state of major corporate and other forms of white-collar crime. While emphasis is placed on contemporary events, the most significant events from the history of white-collar crime are included as well. Geographic coverage focuses on events in…
The New War on Drugs
Politics and white collar crime
State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem
Eric L. Jensen, Jurg Gerber, State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem: The 1986 War on Drugs in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 453-462
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Preventing Delinquency
College Teaching and Learning
Liska, Allen E., Perspectives on Deviance, Second Edition
Liska, Allen E., PERSPECTIVES ON DEVIANCE, Second edition." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 20(1), pp. 137–138
Social Problems
Bridging the gap from high school to college for talented females
Designing Correctional Organizations for Youths
Student Financial Aid and Persistence in College
Student financial aid programs have become an increasingly important component of the financing of higher education. The National Task Force on Student Aid Problems has noted that the total amount of financial assistance to students in postsecondary has increased sixty-six times in the past twenty years. In addition, the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education stated that financial aid appears to be the fastest growing for…
Conventional Ties, Peer Influence, and the Fear of Apprehension
This study examines the relationship between a belief in the certainty of apprehension and self-reported marijuana use; the relative importance of this belief and ties to conventional others as sources of control; and the extent to which involvement with other users is related to the belief examined and use. The findings suggest that both the belief examined and conventional ties, in this case to the family and school, serve as independent source…
Conventional Ties, Peer Influence, and the Fear of Apprehension
This study examines the relationship between a belief in the certainty of apprehension and self-reported marijuana use; the relative importance of this belief and ties to conventional others as sources of control; and the extent to which involvement with other users is related to the belief examined and use. The findings suggest that both the belief examined and conventional ties, in this case to the family and school, serve as independent source…
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Student Financial Aid and Persistence in College
Student financial aid programs have become an increasingly important component of the financing of higher education. The National Task Force on Student Aid Problems has noted that the total amount of financial assistance to students in postsecondary has increased sixty-six times in the past twenty years. In addition, the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education stated that financial aid appears to be the fastest growing for…
State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem
Eric L. Jensen, Jurg Gerber, State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem: The 1986 War on Drugs in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 453-462
Conspicuous conservation
Focusing on the notion of 'green clothing', this article shows how a sartorial aesthetic informs group cohesion for environmentalist activists. Using qualitative data gathered through open-ended questions posted on the Field Biologists's Facebook group, which is no longer active, the article explores subjects' memories and opinions on clothing and style covering the period from the late 1960s to the present. The article mixes this method with his…
Politics and white collar crime
Conventional Ties, Peer Influence, and the Fear of Apprehension
This study examines the relationship between a belief in the certainty of apprehension and self-reported marijuana use; the relative importance of this belief and ties to conventional others as sources of control; and the extent to which involvement with other users is related to the belief examined and use. The findings suggest that both the belief examined and conventional ties, in this case to the family and school, serve as independent source…
Designing Correctional Organizations for Youths
Student Financial Aid and Persistence in College
Student financial aid programs have become an increasingly important component of the financing of higher education. The National Task Force on Student Aid Problems has noted that the total amount of financial assistance to students in postsecondary has increased sixty-six times in the past twenty years. In addition, the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education stated that financial aid appears to be the fastest growing for…
Bridging the gap from high school to college for talented females
Social Problems
Preventing Delinquency
College Teaching and Learning
Liska, Allen E., Perspectives on Deviance, Second Edition
Liska, Allen E., PERSPECTIVES ON DEVIANCE, Second edition." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 20(1), pp. 137–138
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem
Eric L. Jensen, Jurg Gerber, State Efforts to Construct a Social Problem: The 1986 War on Drugs in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 453-462
Politics and white collar crime
The New War on Drugs
Encyclopedia of White-Collar Crime
The high profile collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen are recent examples of corporate scandals that have rocked the business world. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the history and current state of major corporate and other forms of white-collar crime. While emphasis is placed on contemporary events, the most significant events from the history of white-collar crime are included as well. Geographic coverage focuses on events in…
Adult Drug Treatment Courts
Drug treatment courts (DTCs), an alternative to traditional criminal courts, provide an innovative way to legally process some drug offenders. The origin and recent growth of the drug court system in the USA can be explained as an unintended consequence of a failing ‘war on drugs’. In this article, we discuss the spread of adult DTCs throughout the USA, the main components of drug courts, controversies surrounding DTCs, and some criticisms of dru…
Drug War American Style
About the Authors. 1. The Internationalization of US Illicit Drug Control Policy Jurg Gerber and Eric L. Jensen 2. Toward an Explanation of the Persistence of Failed Policy: Binding Drug Policy to Foreign Policy, 1930-1962 Kevin F. Ryan 3. The International System of Drug Control: Developments and Trends Hans-Jorg Albrecht 4. Hong Kong Mark S. Gaylord 5. American Influence on British Drug Policy Philip Bean 6. Drug Policy in Australia - Our Own? …
Drug War American Style
Ekologisk läskunnighet och naturrelationernas abstraktion i Antropocen
For the longer part of humanity’s history, knowledge about nature has been sensual, physical and concrete. Language has reflected a refined and direct relation to living surroundings. With the emergence of modernity, and urbanisation, a more abstract and general relation to nature was introduced. As common schooling started in Sweden, in the 1840s, this more abstract relation to nature was introduced to, and taught to children. Even pedagogy went…
Field observations of the developing legal recreational cannabis economy in Washington State
Conspicuous conservation
Focusing on the notion of 'green clothing', this article shows how a sartorial aesthetic informs group cohesion for environmentalist activists. Using qualitative data gathered through open-ended questions posted on the Field Biologists's Facebook group, which is no longer active, the article explores subjects' memories and opinions on clothing and style covering the period from the late 1960s to the present. The article mixes this method with his…
Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level
Fifteen years ago, Jensen, Gerber, and Mosher drew attention to the societal costs of the U.S. war on drugs. They argued that while criminologists had focused on the impact of this war on the U.S. criminal justice system, other impacts had been under-researched. Whereas some research along these lines has been done that we review here briefly, some of the “objective” conditions of the war on drugs have changed in the intervening years. The primar…
Through Internet and Friends
Air pollution is estimated to cause more than 7000 deaths annually in Sweden alone. To reduce the impact of air pollution and to plan and build sustainable cities, it is vital that research is translated into efficient decisions and practice. However, how do civil servants in a municipality access research results? How do they normally find relevant information, and what obstacles are there to accessing and applying research results? As part of t…
Between exploration and tourism
In the spring of 1826, the young Danish naval officer Carl Irminger and two of his friends sailed with a cargo ship from Copenhagen to Iceland to stay there during the summer. This article is based on Irminger’s unpublished travel diary. Irminger and his friends blended in with the local elite, which provided them with equipment and contacts to travel. Their journeys out from Reykjavik were adventurous and depended on local guides and the hospita…
In Memoriam
“The name of things”
Something important has been forgotten in environmental and sustainability education: teaching ecological literacy. The concept was introduced as an educational field by David Orr, who argued for systemic thinking as well as educating for a sense of place. However, Orr’s ecological literacy did not include the basis for understanding functions of the ecosystems: the names of species and other nature phenomena. This knowledge has generally fallen …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Law (4 works)