Henry N. Pontell

Henry N. Pontell is professor of criminology, law and society in the School of Social Ecology and of sociology in the School of Social Sciences. He's served as Chair of Criminology, Law and Society, Director of Graduate Studies in Social Ecology, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for UCI, and creator and Director of the Master of Advanced Study degree in Criminology, Law and Society, the first online graduate degree program at the University of California. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Virginia, the University of Melbourne, the University of Macau, the University of Hong Kong, Macau University of Science and Technology, Texas Christian University, 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, health care fraud, identity theft, and cyber crime. He has lectured at universities and government offices throughout the world, has testified before the U.S. Senate on financial fraud, and has worked with numerous organizations and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service. His research on white-collar and corporate crime has been highlighted in the national and international media.

Among other awards and honors, Dr. Pontell is a recipient of the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association and the Donald R. Cressey Award for lifetime contributions to fraud detection and prevention from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

His most recent books are the International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (Springer, 2007), Social Deviance (McGraw-Hill, 2010), and Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America (Fifth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010). He currently edits The Masters Series in Criminology (Pearson Prentice Hall).

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.

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Recent Publications

• Henry N. Pontell, Identity Theft. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (in progress).

• Stephen M. Rosoff and Henry N. Pontell, "Computer Crime," in Clifton Bryant (ed.) Handbook of Deviant Behavior. London: Routledge (in press).

• Henry N. Pontell and Gregory C. Brown, "Identity Theft," in Clifton Bryant (ed.) Handbook of Deviant Behavior. London: Routledge (in press).

• Henry N. Pontell, "Trivializing the Lunatic Crime Rate: Theory, Praxis and the Global Economic Meltdown," in Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff (eds.) Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research. New York: McGraw-Hill (in press).

• 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 (in press).

• Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff (eds.), Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research. New York: McGraw-Hill (in press).

• Henry N. Pontell, Identity Theft: Bounded Rationality, Research and Policy. Criminology and 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, translated (Chinese) and reprinted as "White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Global Perspective, International Criminal Law Review (Beijing Normal University, 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.

• 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 für 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, The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. New York: Springer (2007).