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Henry N. Pontell

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology
Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Phone: 
(949) 824-6153
Email: 
pontell@uci.edu
Office: 
2389 SEII
Specializations: 
white-collar and corporate crime, criminology, criminal justice, sociology of law
Department: 
Criminology, Law and Society
Curriculum Vitae: 
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Henry N. Pontell is professor of criminology, law & society in the School of Social Ecology and of sociology in the School of Social Sciences. He currently serves as Director of the Master of Advanced Study Program in Criminology, Law & Society, the first online degree program at the University of California. He has previously served as Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law & Society, Director of Graduate Studies in Social Ecology, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for UCI, and Faculty Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Virginia, the University of Melbourne, the University of Macau, Macau University of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong, and Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

His research and teaching interests include deviance and social control, white-collar and corporate crime, punishment and criminal justice system capacity issues, financial and health care fraud, identity theft, comparative criminology, and cyber crime. He has lectured at universities and government offices throughout the world, testified before the U.S. Senate on financial fraud, given invited presentations to The National Academies and the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked with numerous organizations and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service. His research on white-collar crime has been highlighted in the national and international media.

Among other awards and honors, Dr. Pontell has received the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association, the Donald R. Cressey Award from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology, and the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology. He is an Honorary Professor and Fellow in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Hong Kong, and a recipient of the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Chair at Texas Christian University.

His most recent books include International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, Social Deviance, and Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America. Dr. Pontell has served as Vice-President of the American Society of Criminology and President of the Western Society of Criminology, and is a fellow of both organizations.

Web Links

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/31/the-10-absolute-cooles...

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293314-1&showFullAbstract=1

http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2010/05/too-big-jail

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/15/news/subprime.perpwalk.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009091603

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/03/18/319921/

http://today.uci.edu/briefs/2010/04/nb_pontell_100401.php

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20080925160426733

Recent Publications (2007-Present)

  • Henry N. Pontell and William K. Black, "White-Collar Criminology and the Occupy Wall Street Movement." The Criminologist 37:1 (January/February, 2012) pp. 1-6.
  • Miho Akada, Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, "The Failure of the United States to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child." Whittier Journal of Family and Child Advocacy (in press).
  • Tomson H. Nguyen and Henry N. Pontell, "Fraud and Inequality in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis." In Mathieu Deflem (ed.) Economic Crisis and Crime (Series in Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance). Bingley, UK: Jai Press/Emerald Publishing Group (2011) pp. 3-24.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, "Corporate Codes of Conduct in the United States." In Ulbrich Sieber, Morikazu Taguchi and Katsunori Kai (eds.) Compliance Programs and the Prevention of Corporate Crime. London: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  • Stephen M. Rosoff and Henry N. Pontell, Cyber Crime, in Clifton Bryant (ed.) Handbook of Deviant Behavior. London: Routledge (2011) pp. 417-426.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gregory C. Brown, Identity Theft, in Clifton Bryant (ed.) Handbook of Deviant Behavior. London: Routledge (2011) pp. 427-433.
  • David Shichor, Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, Illegally Backdated Stock Options. In Mathieu Deflem (ed.) Economic Crisis and Crime (Series in Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance). Bingley, UK: Jai Press/Emerald (2011) pp. 127-142.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Global Meltdown: Fraud in Financial Crises, in Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff (eds.) Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research. New York: McGraw-Hill (2011) pp. 30-39; Revised and reprinted in Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law, Vol. 12, 2009: 248-270; Revised and reprinted in Japanese (Shinya Onogami, translation) Waseda Comparative Law Review (in press); Revised and reprinted in Chinese (Su Mingyue, translation) Criminal Policy Review, Vol. 4 (Beijing, in press).
  • Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff (eds.), Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research. New York: McGraw-Hill (2011).
  • Henry N. Pontell, The Impact of the Crisis: An Overview of Mortgage Fraud. Testimony (verbal and written) before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Miami, FL, September 21, 2010. Cited (p.161) in The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Asia. Asian Journal of Criminology 5:2 (2010) pp. 83-88.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, How to Effectively Get Crooks Like Bernie Madoff in Dutch. Criminology Public Policy 9:3 (August 2010) pp. 475-481.
  • Tomson H. Nguyen and Henry N. Pontell, Mortgage Origination Fraud and the Global Economic Crisis: A Criminological Analysis.Criminology & Public Policy 9:3 (August 2010) pp. 591-612.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Wall St. Fraud and Fiduciary Responsibilities: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations? Testimony (verbal and written) before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, May 4, 2010, Serial No. J-111-88. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 132-141. Reprinted in Gilbert Geis, A Documentary History of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press (2011) pp. 326-330.
  • Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell and Robert Tillman, Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America (Fifth Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (2010).
  • David Shichor, Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, "On Criminological Indifference to the Global Economic Crisis." The Criminologist 35:2 (March/April, 2010) pp.24-25.
  • Henry N. Pontell, "Gilbert Geis: Perspectives on White-Collar Crime Scandals," in Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory edited by Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2010) pp. 355-358.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Identity Theft: Bounded Rationality, Research and Policy.  Criminology & Public Policy 8:2 (May 2009) pp. 263-270.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, White-Collar and Corporate Crime in International Perspective, in K. Jaishankar (ed.), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009) pp. 2-19; Revised and reprinted in Chinese (Su Mingyue, translation) as White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Global Perspective, International Criminal Law Review (Beijing, in press).
  • Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff, White-Collar Delinquency. Crime, Law and Social Change 51:1 (February, 2009) pp.147-162.
  • Gilbert Geis, Gregory C. Brown and Henry N. Pontell, Internet Gambling, in Frank Schmallager and Michael Pittaro (eds.), Crimes of the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009, pp. 166-190.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Gregory C. Brown and Anastasia Tosouni, Stolen Identities: A Victim Survey, in Megan M. McNally and Graeme R. Newman (eds.), Perspectives on Identity Theft. Crime Prevention Studies Vol. 23. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, 2008, pp. 57-85.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, Religion and the Psychology of Gambling in China and the U.S., in Marco J. Esposito (ed.), The Psychology of Gambling. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008, pp. 1-14. Reprinted in Joan C. Upton (ed.), Religion and Psychology Research Progress. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008, pp. 145-158; Revised and reprinted in Chinese (Su Mingyue, translation) in Jingshi Law Review (Bejing) Vol. 4, 2010, pp. 401-414.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Stephen M. Rosoff and Andrew Peterson, Lenient Justice? Punishing White-Collar and Corporate Crime, in Shlomo Giora Shoham, Ori Beck and Martin Kett (eds.), The International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2008, pp. 709-731.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, The Paradox of Economic Crime in Japan: The Thalidomide Scourge, The Lockheed Scandal, and Endemic Political Corruption, Special issue of Monatsschrift Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, edited by Kai-D. Bussmann, Crossing the Borders: Economic Crime From an International Perspective. Inhalt Heft 2/3 (Juni 2007):103-113; Revised and reprinted in Japanese in Saitama Social Science Review, (Tokikazu Konishi, translation), Nippon no Keizai-Hanzai ni okeru Paradox Thalidomide-ka, Lockheed-Jiken, and Kouzouteki-na Seiji-Oshoku. Saitama-Daigaku Shakai-Kagaku-Ronshu Dai 123 gou (2008): 49-63.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, Black Mist and White Collars: Economic Crime in the U.S. and Japan. Asian Journal of Criminology 2:2 (December 2007) pp.111-126. Reprinted in Japanese in Waseda Comparative Law Review (Tokikazu Konishi, translation), Kuroikiri to 'White-Collar' Zoku --Keizaihanzai no Nichibeihikaku. Wasedadaigaku Hikakuhougaku Dai 40 kan, Dai 3 gou, (2007):63-88.
  • Tokikazu Konishi, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis, Forensic Accounting in Japan. Journal of Forensic Accounting Vol. VIII (2007), pp. 141-154.
  • Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis, and Gregory C. Brown, Offshore Gambling and the World Trade Organization: Is Internet Gambling Criminal Behavior or a Commodity? International Journal of Cyber Criminology 1:1 (January 2007) pp. 119-136.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis, New Times, New Crimes: 'Blocking' Financial Identity Fraud, in Frank Bovenkerk and Michael Levi (eds.), The Organized Crime Community: Essays in Honor of Alan Block. New York: Springer (2007) pp. 45-58.
  • Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis (eds.), The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. New York: Springer (2007).