Book Review: White Collar Crime in Housing: Mortgage Fraud in the United States
| Author | Andrew T. Carswell |
| Date | 01 April 2017 |
| Published date | 01 April 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0964663917704734c |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
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unwieldy, what might be needed is a series of studies on more discrete aspects of the
system, for instance an EU-wide study on the impact of judicial review, or of internal
appeal mechanisms. Or an EU-wide study into one particular area of public administra-
tion, such as housing or immigration.
To conclude, Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law is an
important book in that it highlights an unfashionable branch of the administrative justice
system, but one which many citizens will very likely interact with at some point in their
lives. There is much written on EU law, human rights and judicial review and not enough
on the delivery of administrative justice more generally (Adler, 2010). Further, amongst
scholars in the field, there is not enough shared knowledge of the success or otherwise of
various methods of delivering dispute resolution across Europe. I therefore recommend
Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law as a vital source of
comparative insight and hope that it will be soon followed up by an empirical endeavour
that interrogates the effectiveness of ADR in European Administrative Law.
RICHARD KIRKHAM
University of Sheffield, UK
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CYNTHIA KOLLER, White Collar Crime in Housing: Mortgage Fraud in the United States.
El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2012, p. 184,
ISBN 9781593325343, $65.00 (hbk).
Koller’s White Collar Crime in Housing helps to illuminate one of the 21st century’s
often misunderstood crimes: mortgage fraud. Koller is careful to point out the differ-
ences between predatory lending and mortgage fraud, providing clarity that mortgage
fraud qualifies as ‘predatory borrowing’ (p. 29). Much of the previous literature on
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