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Author Koller, Cynthia, 1960-

Title White collar crime in housing : mortgage fraud in the United States / Cynthia Koller
Published El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 175 pages) : illustrations
Series Criminal justice : recent scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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
Subprime mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices -- United States
Housing -- United States
White collar crimes -- United States
TRUE CRIME -- White Collar Crime.
Housing
White collar crimes
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012017594
ISBN 9781593326029
1593326025
1593325347
9781593325343