When a mortgage borrower becomes seriously delinquent (i.e., defaults), the lender initiates a time consuming and complex recovery process that may or may not result in foreclosure and eventual disposition of the real estate collateral (REO). This research studies this transition process for a unique sample of subprime mortgages that were seriously delinquent on September 30, 2001. Eight months...

Simmering beneath the bubbles of your regular soft drink are issues social class, subjugation, and injustice. Sugar is a commodity it this component when added to drinks that now attracts taxation liability under Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) which was introduced in UK April 2018. In critical article, we argue UK’s capitalist state using excuse concern with workers’ health justify taxing com...

Recent research has shown a clear association between schizophrenia and violent behaviour, which cannot be completely explained by co-morbid substance abuse or personality disorders. This increased risk for delinquent behaviour becomes apparent in acts of severe violent crime. Individuals who frequent the penal system often have a history of acute and chronic mental illness, as well as signific...

Self-images expressed in response to the Draw-A-Story task were examined for differences in gender, age, and delinquency. Subjects included 64 adolescents in detention in California and 74 normal controls attending schools in Ohio, New York, and Florida; 82 were males (53 delinquents, 29 controls); 56 were females (11 delinquents, 45 controls). Their ages ranged between 13 and 17. The first ana...

Criminal behaviour and violence may be the consequence of head injuries acquired during childhood and youth (gang fights, domestic violence, small blows to the head while driving, falls and so forth). In this study, a comparison was made of the school and head injury histories of violent and non-violent prisoners. It was found that the delinquent subjects in both groups had a history of academi...

The present study analyzes the relation between delinquent behaviors, interpersonal values, and academic performance. It also analyzes the possible protective function of interpersonal values against delinquent behaviors. The Interpersonal Values Questionnaire (IVQ) was used to assess interpersonal values, and the Antisocial-Delinquent Behaviors Questionnaire (A-D) was employed to assess antiso...