Bryan Burton, PhD
Associate Professor
Contact
Office Hours
I will be on sabbatical leave during the Fall 2025 semester and will not be available for meetings, advising, or regular correspondence during this time.
If you have questions related to the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, please contact:
Emily K. Asencio, PhD
Professor & Chair
Email: [email protected]
For advising assistance, please visit: https://ccjs.sonoma.edu/advising
For questions about our upcoming Study Abroad Program to Sweden and Denmark (Summer 2026) or inquiries related to the CCJ Club, please contact:
Diana Grant, PhD
Email: [email protected]
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.