Ernestien Jensema

Ernestien Jensema

Email: e.jensema AT tni dot org
Phone: +31 20 662 66 08

Ernestien Jensema (1971) is a social anthropologist who researches and analyses the UN drug control system, Dutch drug policy and the Drugs and Democracy Programme’s Asia project.

International drug control system; drugs market in India, Dutch drug policy; harm reduction policies

Dutch, English, French

Recent content by Ernestien Jensema

A Matter of Substance (26 Jul 2010)

This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The focus was on the drugs, rather than the couriers, and on incapacitating the smuggling route, rather than deterrence by incarceration.