Department of
Criminology and Criminal Justice

Adam Ghazi-Tehrani holds a B.A. from the University of California at Davis, an M.S. from the California State University at Long Beach, and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Irvine. He is interested in regulatory, compliance, governmental, and societal factors on cyber and white-collar offenses.

His past work has focused on hidden crimes such as food adulteration, an attempt by the Chinese political apparatus to cover up a high-speed train crash, and on-going virtual threats from state-sponsored cyber actors.

Adam’s current work examines the factors that allow for ongoing cyber offenses, as well as the domestic regulatory and compliance issues in the U.S. that keep corporations and the public vulnerable, and the effects of both on global trade and security.

His most recent publications include the award-winning book Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China (2022), an article on The Dark Web (Tor) in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2023), and an article on risk perception online in the Journal of Crime and Justice (2023).