Bryan Burton, PhD
Associate Professor
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I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to let you know that I will be on sabbatical during the Fall 2025 semester. During this time, I will be away from campus and unavailable for meetings, advising, or regular correspondence.
If you have advising-related questions, please visit our department’s advising page:
👉 https://ccjs.sonoma.edu/advising
For internship inquiries, you are welcome to contact:
Dr. Anastasia Tosouni
📧 [email protected]
For general department matters, please reach out to:
Dr. Emily K. Asencio
Professor & Chair
📧 [email protected]
If you have questions about our upcoming Summer 2026 Study Abroad Program to Sweden and Denmark or would like to learn more about the CCJ Club, please contact:
Dr. Diana Grant
📧 [email protected]
If you have any questions about our upcoming Summer 2026 Study Away Program to Washington, D.C., please contact:
Lindsey Bell-Ker
📧 [email protected]
Thank you for your understanding. I look forward to reconnecting with you in Spring 2026 when I return to campus.
Advising Area
- General
Areas of Expertise
white-collar and corporate crime, healthcare fraud and abuse, healthcare regulation, criminological theory
Biography
Professor Bryan Burton holds two degrees from the University of California, Irvine. He earned his BA in Social Ecology in 2008 and his PhD. in Criminology, Law and Society in 2016. His work covers white-collar crime and corporate crime, healthcare fraud and abuse (particularly in Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare regulation, and criminological theory. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime: An International and Multidisciplinary Journal. Dr. Burton is actively involved in international education. He has taken students on study abroad programs, most recently to Sweden and Greece, and maintains academic partnerships in those countries.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Burton, B. R. (2025). Six steps to a successful study abroad program: Case study in Stockholm, Sweden. csuglobalaction, 2(1), Article 2. online at [https://doi.org/]10.
Burton, B., Sun, D., Jesilow, P., Pontell, H. (2022). Two Paths, One Destination: A Demographic Portrait of Physicians Sanctioned by the Federal Government. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. 45(3), 142-180. online at https://doi.org/10.37808/jhhsa.45.3.1.
Jesilow, P., Burton, B., Sun, D. (2022). Healthcare Fraud. In Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Ed. Beth M. Huebner. New York: Oxford University Press.
Burton, B., & Consulter, M. (2021). Multi-Level Marketing Scams. In Beth M. Huebner (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pontell, H., Ghazi-Tehrani, A., & Burton, B. (2019). White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China. In Melissa Rorie (ed.) The Handbook of White-Collar Crime. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Jesilow, P., & Burton, B. (2017). Constructing a Demographic Portrait of Deviant Doctors. In Ophir Sefiha & Steve Brown (Eds.) Handbook of Deviance Studies, Anderson/Routledge Press.
Ghazi-Tehrani, A., Burton, B., & Pontell, H. (2017). Deviant Executives: Crime in the Suites. In Ophir Sefiha & Steve Brown (Eds.) Handbook of Deviance Studies, Anderson/Routledge Press.
Jesilow, P., & Burton, B. (2017). Detecting Healthcare Fraud and Abuse in the United States. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Ed. Ben Lenard. New York: Oxford University Press.