Edward Jandy’s Academic Articles on JSTOR: 52 Ancestors 2025 Prompt “At the Library”

 

Research, Reviews and Citations: Learning about Dr. Jandy’s Research from Library Sources

Dr. Edward Jandy: 1899-1980 (Maternal Grandfather)

 

I have already written one post about Edward Jandy’s PhD dissertation and book on the life and work of sociologist Charles Horton Cooley. However, Dr. Jandy continued to research and publish during his long career as a professor at Wayne State University in Michigan. I decided it was time to look for some of his publications in online library resources. I hoped to get a clearer picture of his research interests.

Dr. Edward Jandy

Some of Dr. Jandy’s earliest research had to do with inner city drug addiction in Detroit, and its connection to crime. Dr. Jandy and a psychologist at the Detroit House of Correction, designed the study, interviewed criminals and wrote up their conclusions in a paper titled “Narcotic Addiction as a Factor in Petty Larceny in Detroit”. It was published November, 1937 by the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research. The paper found a strong correlation between addiction and crime, and recommended treatment for the addiction as a way to lower the rate of recidivism.

By the 1940s, Dr. Jandy was hosting a weekly radio program in Detroit on “Post-War Problems”. He served as moderator of various panels of experts, according to the News And Notes Section of The American Journal of Sociology, 1943.

Dr. Jandy was appointed the Director of Welfare for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Mission to Ethiopia in 1946, and he returned to the country in 1950 as an attache and Public Affairs Officer to the American Embassy in Addis Adabe, serving until 1953. Some of his articles deal with his experiences in Ethiopia and his assessment of the country and its people. In addition I have found reference to a book he wrote entitled Changing Land Tenure Practice and Land Taxation in Ethiopia, published in 1963.

Most of Dr. Jandy’s other publications were book reviews of various books, including a couple of general sociology textbooks. The subject matter of the other books included opiate addiction, maximum security prisons, and juvenile crime, showing that he continued his study of the causes of criminal behavior.

I hope to read Dr. Jandy’s memoir to learn more about his research interests and teaching career.

Sources:

Jandy, Edward C. “Ethiopia Today: A Review of Its Changes and Problems.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 306, 1956, pp. 106–16. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1030740. Accessed 18 June 2025.

Jandy, Edward C. and Floch, Maurice. “Narcotic Addiction as a Factor in Petty Larceny in Detroit”. November, 1937. Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research. School of Public Affairs and Social Work of Wayne University, Report No. 9.

Jandy, Edward C., Review of Opiate Addiction. Social Science, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 1949), pp. 124-125.

Jandy, Edward C. Review of  The Society for Captives: A Study of A Maximum Security Prison. Social Science, Vol. 34, No. 4 (OCTOBER, 1959), pp. 253-254.

Jandy, Edward C. Review of  Delinquency, The Juvenile Offender in America Today. Social Science, Vol. 32, No. 3 (JUNE, 1957), pp. 190-191.

Jandy, Edward C. Review of Sociology: Analysis of a Decade. Social Science, Vol. 34, No. 1 (JANUARY, 1959), pp. 55-56.