Wayward Dragon

Ghazi-Tehrani and Pontell’s important book offers a comparative analysis of white collar crime in China.  Featuring a treasure trove of white-collar crime case studies and situated in the broader criminological literature, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in corruption, corporate crime, comparative criminology and Chinese law and society.

- Benjamin van Rooij, Chair in Law and Society, University of Amsterdam, Global Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, USA

My book of the year, and perhaps the decade. Well written, edgy, theoretical, and disturbing, it illuminates how white-collar and corporate crime have been silent companions of China’s glamorous economic growth over the past four decades.

- Liqun Cao, Professor, Ontario Tech University, Ontario, Canada

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity.

The text begins with an introduction to the topic placing it in global perspective, followed by chapters examining the importance of comparative study, corruption as a major crime in China, case studies and etiology, domestic, regional and global consequences, and concluding theoretical and policy issues that can inform future research.

Adam K. Ghazi-Tehrani is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on white-collar crime in China, cybercrime and hate crime and serves on the Executive Board of the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime of the American Society of Criminology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.

Henry N. Pontell is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Irvine. An internationally recognized scholar, his research on white-collar crime includes studies in China and countries throughout Asia. He is a past president of the Western Society of Criminology and vice-president of the American Society of Criminology, and is a fellow of both organizations.