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Henry Pontell's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Henry N. Pontell is an American sociologist, currently a Distinguished Professor and past Chair at John Jay College, City University of New York, and also a published author. Among his honors is an honorary professorship, the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Chair at Texas Christian University. He has served as the Vice President of the American Society of Criminology, of which he is also a fellow. He is the President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium at the National White Collar Crime Center.

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Henry Pontell's Published Works

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Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America (1997) (149)
Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (1997) (140)
International handbook of white-collar and corporate crime (2007) (128)
Too big to fail, too powerful to jail? On the absence of criminal prosecutions after the 2008 financial meltdown (2014) (112)
Choosing White-Collar Crime (2007) (98)
“Heads I Win, Tails You Lose”: Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry (1990) (83)
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State (1997) (70)
Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: A criminological analysis (2010) (66)
Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis (2000) (59)
Corporate crime and criminal justice system capacity: Government response to financial institution fraud (1994) (48)
The state and white-collar crime: Saving the savings and loans (1994) (46)
IS JUSTICE “COLLAR-BLIND”?: PUNISHING MEDICAID PROVIDER FRAUD* (1992) (46)
A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment. (1985) (43)
SAVINGS AND LOAN FRAUD AS ORGANIZED CRIME: TOWARD A CONCEPTUAL TYPOLOGY OF CORPORATE ILLEGALITY* (1993) (43)
DETERRENCE Theory versus Practice (1978) (42)
Prescription for profit : how doctors defraud Medicaid (1994) (42)
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations (2005) (41)
The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective (2008) (41)
POLICING PHYSICIANS: PRACTITIONER FRAUD AND ABUSE IN A GOVERNMENT MEDICAL PROGRAM* (1982) (40)
Seriousness of crimes: A survey of the nation's chiefs of police (1985) (36)
“Other's People's Money” Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries (1991) (35)
White-collar crime or just risky business? The role of fraud in major financial debacles (2005) (33)
Organizations and Fraud in the Savings and Loan Industry (1995) (33)
Fraud by physicians against Medicaid. (1991) (33)
The Savings and Loan Debacle of the 1980s: White-Collar Crime or Risky Business?* (1995) (29)
Fraud and abuse of government medical benefit programs by psychiatrists. (1985) (25)
Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research (1995) (23)
Corporate crime and state legitimacy: the 2008 Chinese melamine milk scandal (2015) (22)
Control fraud, gambling for resurrection, and moral hazard: Accounting for white-collar crime in the savings and loan crisis (2005) (21)
White-collar delinquency (2009) (21)
Medical criminals: Physicians and white-collar offenses (1985) (21)
The Savings and Loan Industry (1993) (20)
Criminalizing white-collar misconduct (1996) (19)
Phishing Evolves: Analyzing the Enduring Cybercrime (2021) (19)
Economic Crime and Casinos: China’s Wager on Macau (2014) (19)
Identity theft: Bounded rationality, research, and policy (2009) (19)
Jail overcrowding: An analysis of policy makers' perceptions (1990) (19)
The Trajectory of White-Collar Crime Following the Great Economic Meltdown (2014) (19)
White-collar and corporate crime in China: a comparative analysis of enforcement capacity and non-issue making (2013) (17)
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal (1993) (16)
Risky Business Revisited: White-Collar Crime and the Orange County Bankruptcy (1998) (15)
A demographic portrait of physicians sanctioned by the federal government for fraud and abuse against Medicare and Medicaid. (1985) (15)
An Overview of in China (2022) (14)
Practitioner fraud and abuse in medical benefit programs: government regulation and professional white-collar crime. (1984) (14)
A capacity to punish : the ecology of crime and punishment (1986) (14)
COURT CASELOADS, PLEA BARGAINS, AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS: THE EFFECTS OF SECTION 17 P.C. IN CALIFORNIA (1985) (13)
Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control: Jail Overcrowding in California (1994) (13)
Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Implications of Alternative Definitions of “White-Collar Crime” (2016) (13)
Black Mist and White Collars: Economic Crime in the United States and Japan (2007) (13)
Introduction: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Asia (2010) (13)
'Pleased to Meet You Won't You Guess My Name?': Identity Fraud, Cyber-crime and White-collar Delinquency (2002) (13)
Medical Fraud and Abuse: Australia, Canada, and the United States (1985) (12)
“Don’t Be Low Hanging Fruit”: Identity e as Moral Panic (2006) (11)
Medical students' attitudes on physician fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (1985) (11)
Assaults in the Air - Concerning Attacks Against Flight Attendants (1983) (10)
Fraud and Inequality in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2011) (9)
Counties in Court: Interorganizational Adaptations to Jail Litigation in California (1991) (9)
How to effectively get crooks like Bernie Madoff in Dutch1 (2010) (8)
Peculating psychologists: Fraud and abuse against Medicaid. (1985) (7)
Offshore Internet Gambling and the World Trade Organization: Is it Criminal Behavior or a Commodity? (2007) (7)
A capacity to punish (1984) (6)
Harming America: Corporate Crime in a Context of Deregulation (2019) (6)
Corruption in the United States and China: codes of conduct vs. crackdowns (2020) (6)
Culture Conflict Revisited: Fraud by Vietnamese Physicians in the United States (1992) (5)
11. Saving the Savings and Loans? U.S. Government Response to Financial Crime (1995) (5)
Prescriptions for punishment: Official ideologies and jall overcrowding (1989) (5)
White-collar and organized crimes: Questions of seriousness and policy (1987) (5)
Dr. Geis and Associates Reply (1985) (4)
In-your-face Watergate: neutralizing government lawbreaking and the war against white-collar crime (2021) (4)
Illegally Backdated Stock Options (2011) (3)
Economic Crime and China’s High-Speed Railway: a Case Study of the Wenzhou Crash (2017) (3)
"Pleased to meet you...won't you guess my name?" Reducing identity fraud in the Australian Tax System (2002) (3)
New Times, New Crimes: “Blocking” Financial Identity Fraud (2007) (2)
Wayward Dragon (2022) (2)
Deviance, Reactivist Definitions of (2016) (1)
The Paradox of Economic Crime in Japan: The Thalidomide Scourge, The Lockheed Scandal, and Endemic Political Corruption (2007) (1)
Corporate crime and state legitimacy: the 2008 Chinese melamine milk scandal (2015) (1)
Investigating ID Fraud in Australia: A Research Program (2003) (1)
Economic Crime and Casinos: China’s Wager on Macau (2013) (0)
Chapter Three. The Law in Action: Enforcement in the Medicaid Program (1993) (0)
Corruption in the United States and China: codes of conduct vs. crackdowns (2019) (0)
Economic Crime and China’s High-Speed Railway: a Case Study of the Wenzhou Crash (2017) (0)
White-collar and corporate crime in China: a comparative analysis of enforcement capacity and non-issue making (2013) (0)
White‐Collar and Corporate Crime in China (2019) (0)
Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down.By Steve J. Martin & Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Texas Monthly Press. 289 pp. $21.95 (1989) (0)
Commentary (2013) (0)
Assaults Against Airline Flight Attendants (2016) (0)
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud (2022) (0)
Origination Fraud and the Contemporary U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2010) (0)
Chapter Four. What the Doctors Did (1993) (0)
Too big to fail, too powerful to jail? On the absence of criminal prosecutions after the 2008 financial meltdown (2013) (0)
in China (1970) (0)
Lenient Justice? Punishing White-Collar and Corporate Crime (2007) (0)
and (2022) (0)
Conclusion (2022) (0)
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China (2022) (0)
Domestic, Regional, and (2022) (0)
WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND MAJOR FINANCIAL DEBACLES IN THE UNITED STATES (2010) (0)
Lenient Justice? Punishing and Corporate Crime (2008) (0)
Political crime and corruption take center stage: introductory notes (2021) (0)

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