Social Strain or Self-Control?: An Empirical Test of Explanations of Employee Theft
Social Strain or Self-Control?: An Empirical Test of Explanations of Employee Theft
Christopher Contreras Henry N. Pontell Jianhong Liu a University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USAb John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USAc University of Macau, Taipa, MO, ChinaChristopher Contreras, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a sociological criminologist whose research focuses on the social context of neighborhoods, drugs, and crime. His work examines how neighborhood conditions shape the spatial distribution of crime, drug markets, drug-related deaths, and other health outcomes. He uses quantitative methods and spatial analysis to investigate these issues. More recently, his research has revisited challenges to criminological theory posed by white-collar crime, with a focus on elite criminality and occupational offending in international contexts. Contreras has won awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Western Society of Criminology.Henry N. Pontell, is a Distinguished Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. His publications have focused primarily on white-collar and corporate crime, and more recently on comparative issues and corruption. He’s served as Vice-President of the American Society of Criminology, President of the Western Society of Criminology, is a fellow of both organizations, and his scholarly work has been recognized by these and other professional associations. His latest book (with Adam Ghazi-Tehrani) Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China, received the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on White-Collar and Corporate Crime.Jianhong Liu, is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau. He is the winner of the American Society of Criminology’s 2016 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award and the winner of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’s 2018 G. O.W. Mueller Award for Distinguished Contribution to International Criminal Justice. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology (Springer Publishing; SSCI journal), and the editor of Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. His research concentrates on crime and justice in China.