Description |
1 online resource (ix, 175 pages) : illustrations |
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Criminal justice : recent scholarship |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 White Collar Crime in Housing -- Overview of Current Study/Research Questions -- Organization of the Study -- ch. 2 Subprime Mortgaging and Fraud -- Market Growth -- Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- Mortgage Fraud -- ch. 3 Toward an Understanding of Mortgage Fraud -- Opportunity -- Associations -- Routines -- ch. 4 Diffusion of Innovation -- Diffusion Process -- Reinvention -- ch. 5 Applying Diffusion Theory to White Collar Crime -- Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice -- Accounting for White Collar Crime -- ch. 6 Gathering Insights from the Field: Research Strategy -- ch. 7 Subprime Lending and Mortgage Fraud Diffusion -- Diffusion of Subprime Lending -- Diffusion of Subprime Fraud -- Summary -- ch. 8 Innovation and Reinvention -- Origins of Subprime Diffusion -- Subprime Characteristics -- Reinvention of Subprime -- ch. 9 Attributes of Subprime Lending and Fraud -- ch. 10 Discussion and Future Directions |
Summary |
Subprime lending and mortgage fraud spread rapidly throughout the United States financial services sector during the 1990s and early 2000s, and in turn have been credited with contributing to an unprecedented global financial crisis. Koller, using diffusion theory as an interpretive framework, utilizes industry insider insights to examine how and why these innovative lending and fraud strategies diffused so quickly and deeply throughout the housing industry. She also assesses the viability of contemporary criminological and diffusion theories to explain the creation and control of white collar |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices -- United States
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Subprime mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices -- United States
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Housing -- United States
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White collar crimes -- United States
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TRUE CRIME -- White Collar Crime.
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Housing
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White collar crimes
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012017594 |
ISBN |
9781593326029 |
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1593326025 |
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1593325347 |
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9781593325343 |
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