Courses recently taught: Comparative Drug Policy (POLS 404) and Governmental Policy and Program Analysis (POLS 556)

Areas of academic interest: drug policy, juvenile justice, evaluation research, research methods, and public policy

Biography: Dr. Jensen received his BA, MA, and PhD from Washington State University.  The latter of which was earned in 1978.  He was also a Fulbright Lecturer/Research Scholar at the University Denmark school of law in the spring semester of 2002
 

Selected Publications: 

Jensen, Eric L. 2008. Drug Wars in the United States: The
Construction of Problematic Conditions. Pp. 233-256 in Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Bagga Bjerge and Esben Houborg (eds.). Drug Policy: History, Theory and Consequences.. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.

 

Gerber, Jurg and Jensen, Eric L. (eds.) 2007. The Encyclopedia of
White-Collar Crime. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

 

Jensen, Eric L, Parsons, Nicholas L., and Mosher, Clayton J. 2007.
Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A Review. Sociology Compass.
1: 552-571

 

Jensen, Eric L. and Jepsen, Jørgen (eds.). 2006. Juvenile Law Violators,
Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice
Systems. Oxford, U.K.: Hart Publishing. In conjunction with the
International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain.

 

Jensen, Eric L. and Reed, Gary E. 2006. Adult Correctional
Education Programs: An Update on Current Status Based
on Recent Studies. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 44: 81-98.

 

Wise, Judith and Jensen, Eric L. 2006. International Drug
Pollution? Reflections on Trail Smelter and Latin American
Drug Trafficking. Pp. 281-294 in Rebecca M. Bratspies and Russell
A. Miller (eds.). Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

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