FRONT COVER -- ECONOMIC CRISIS AND CRIME -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE CRISIS -- REFERENCES -- PART I: THE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE CRISIS -- FRAUD AND INEQUALITY IN THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCRIMINATION AND THE MORTGAGE INDUSTRY -- PREDATORY LENDING -- TOWARD ''ECONOMIC EQUALITY'' -- FRAUD AND INEQUALITY -- ILLUSION OF AFFORDABILITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- DIFFUSION OF FRAUD THROUGH SUBPRIME LENDING: THE PERFECT STORM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HOUSING BOOM -- THE HOUSING BUST -- DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION AND FRAUD -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD BLAMEWORTHINESS AND CONTROL OF THE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE CRISIS -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- CURRENT STUDY -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE SECURITIZATION OF MORTGAGE FRAUD -- INTRODUCTION -- SUBPRIME LENDING AND MORTGAGE FRAUD -- ORIGINATING AND UNDERWRITING FRAUDULENT LOANS -- THE ORIGINATE TO SECURITIZE MODEL -- GOLDMAN SACHS, SUBPRIME RISK, AND DUE DILIGENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II: CORPORATE AND WHITE-COLLAR CRIME -- SOCIAL REACTIONS TO WHITE-COLLAR CRIMES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ECONOMIC CRISES -- INTRODUCTION -- FOLK-DEVILLING BUSINESS ACTIVITIES -- MORAL ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESS CRIMES -- THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON LEVELS OF FRAUD -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CORPORATE CRIME AND CRISIS: CAUSATION SCENARIOS -- INTRODUCTION -- CORPORATE CRIME CAUSES THE CRISIS -- THE CRISIS CAUSES CORPORATE CRIME -- THE CRISIS CAUSES CRIMINALIZATION OF BUSINESS CONDUCT -- THE CRISIS UNCOVERS CORPORATE CRIME -- READING TEA-LEAVES -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ILLEGALLY BACKDATED STOCK OPTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- STOCK OPTIONS -- PROTYPICAL CASES.

EMPIRICAL FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART III: CRIME (CONTROL) AND ECONOMIC RECESSION -- THE CRIMINAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES IN NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE DUE TO HOME FORECLOSURE: A THEORETICAL DISCUSSION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HOME FORECLOSURE CRISIS -- THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS -- STRAIN THEORIES -- SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION THEORY -- DISORDER THEORIES -- DO THESE THEORIES REALLY APPLY? -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND RATES OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM SURVEYS -- INTRODUCTION -- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -- RESEARCH PLAN AND METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE SHOWDOWN WITH SHRINKING BUDGETS: POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS -- INTRODUCTION -- MAJOR TRENDS SHAPING POLICE BUDGETS BEGINNING IN 2000 -- POLICE BUDGETS SURVEYS -- MEDIA COVERAGE OF POLICING DURING THE GREAT RECESSION -- A CASE STUDY IN BUDGET PLANNING -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.