Tomson Nguyen

Tomson H. Nguyen is currently completing a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His scholarly and teaching interests range widely, from white-collar and corporate crime to the intersection of crime and social injustice. His dissertation, entitled, "Origination Fraud and the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: How a Crime-Contaminated Industry led to an Economic Nightmare", dissects the interplay between the growth of mortgage fraud and inadequate regulatory, institutional, and free-market structures that make up the subprime mortgage industry. Some of his scholarly achievements include: 1) First Place, Western Society of Criminology student paper award; 2) "Outstanding Master's Thesis" award from the Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach; and 3) publications in the journal, Deviant Behavior, and the Journal of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. Tomson was also the recipient of the Minority Fellowship Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2004, and a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship in 2008.

For more information, please see his CV below.
https://webfiles.uci.edu/tomsonn/Cirriculum%20Vitae_Tomson%20Nguyen.pdf