Watch the documentary Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2010) by the Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer, Danny Schechter. It is available for streaming online through Kanopy via the UMass library subscription. This film explores the epidemic of subprime mortgages, predatory lending, insurance scams, and high-risk hedge funds that caused the collapse of the housing market and a full-scale economic meltdown. In answering the following questions make sure to consider the overarching question of the gap between what is counted as crime and what is policed as crime.
500 word minimum, 20 points
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