CURRICULUM VITAE TOMSON H. NGUYEN CONTACT INFORMATION Office Address: University of California Irvine School of Social Ecology Department of Criminology, Law & Society 2364, Social Ecology II Irvine, California 92697-7080 Telephone/email Cell: (714) 504-8917 Fax: (949) 334-1818 Email: tomsonn@uci.edu, nguyen_tomson@yahoo.com Website: http://socialecology.uci.edu/cls/grads/tomsonn/ EDUCATION Ph.D University of California, Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society. In Progress. Dissertation: Origination Fraud and the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: How a Crime-Contaminated Industry led to a Economic Nightmare. Advanced to Candidacy: April 1, 2008. Committee: James Diego Vigil, Ph.D (Chair) Henry Pontell, Ph.D. Elliot Currie, Ph.D. M.S. California State University, Long Beach, Criminal Justice. 2003 Illegal Video Gambling in Vietnamese Cafés: An Observational Study of Hot Line Machines in Southern California Committee: John Z. Wang, Ph.D. Bruce Berg, Ph.D Elizabeth Piper Deschenes, Ph.D. B.S. California State University, Long Beach, Criminal Justice. 2000 A.A. Irvine Valley College. 1999 1
LICENSE/S 2005 State of California, Department of Real Estate Mortgage Broker License # 01737745 PUBLICATIONS Nguyen, T. H. (2008). Origination Fraud and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: How a Crime- Contaminated Industry led to an Economic Nightmare. Submitted to Western Criminology Review. Vigil, J. D., Nguyen, T. H., Cheng, J. (2006). Asian Americans on the Streets: Strategies for Street Prevention and Intervention. Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community, 25: 1-20. Nguyen, T. H. (2004). The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Examination of the Gambling Business of Vietnamese Cafes. Deviant Behavior, 25: 451-464 Nguyen, T. H. (2000). Breaking the Code: A New Crime. International Association of Asian Crime Investigators News, p. 6 HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2008 Dean s Dissertation Data Collection Fellowship 2006 Summer Research Grant: University of California, Irvine 2005 Summer Research Grant: University of California, Irvine 2004 American Society of Criminology Minority Fellowship 2004 Summer Research Grant: University of California, Irvine Criminology, Law and Society 2003 First Place - Western Society of Criminology Student Paper Competition. Paper: The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Observational Study of a Vietnamese Café in Southern California 2003 Outstanding Departmental Thesis Award, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach 2002 Kay Holloway Graduate Fellowship, California State University, Long Beach, 2002 National Deans List, California State University, Long Beach 2001 National Deans List, California State University, Long Beach 2000 National Deans List, Nominated by Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach 2
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2004-2005 University Writing and Field Research. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine Teaching Assistant: 2007-2007 Cultural Gangs. Criminology, Law and Society. University of California, Irvine. 2006-2007 Juvenile Delinquency. Criminology, Law and Society. University of California, Irvine. 2006-2006 Hate Crimes. Criminology, Law and Society. University of California, Irvine. 2006-2006 Victimeless Crimes. Criminology, Law and Society. University of California, Irvine. 2006-2006 Forensic Science and the Law. Criminology, Law and Society. University of California, Irvine. 2005-2005 Crime and the Cinema. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2005-2005 Culture Change and the Mexican People. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2004-2004 Deviance. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2004-2004 Constitutional Law. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2004-2004 Cross Cultural Research on Gangs. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2004-2004 Psychology and the Law. Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine 2003-2003 Theories of Punishment. School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 2000-2002 Theories of Crime Causation. California State University, Long Beach 3
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES 04/2008 Nguyen, T. H. Beyond Mortgage Fraud: The New Business of Selling Risk. The Department of Criminology, Law and Society Graduate Student Colloquium. Irvine, CA. 04/2006 Nguyen, T. H. Assessing the Applicability of Platescan and the Concerns of Systems Capacity. The Department of Criminology, Law and Society Graduate Student Colloquium. Irvine, CA. 11/2005 Peterson, A. & Nguyen, T. "To Surveil and Protect: Assessing the Applications and the Concerns of System's Capacity." American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada. 12/2005 Presenter. Gangs: Intervention or Incarceration? University of Southern California. USC School of Social Work. Los Angeles, California. 05/2005 Presenter. A Social Structural Analysis of Vietnamese Gangs in Southern California. The Department of Criminology, Law and Society Graduate Student Colloquium. Irvine, CA. 02/2004 Presenter. The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Observational Study of a Vietnamese Café in Southern California. Annual meeting of the Western Society of Criminology. Long Beach, CA 11/2003 Presenter. Illegal Video Gambling in Vietnameese Cafés: An Observational Study. Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Denver, Colorado. 05/2003 Invited Lecturer. The Culture of Vietnamese Gangs. University of California, Irvine. 03/2003 Invited Lecturer. Gang life and experiences. University of California, Irvine. 10/2000 Invited Lecturer. Payroll Check Fraud: From Modus Operandi to Policy. California State University, Long Beach. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 06/2007 Courtroom testimony as an expert witness. Federal Death Penalty Case. Superior Court of the State of California. Santa Clara County, CA. Asian Gang Mitigation Expert. 03/2006 National Choice Mortgage, Inc. 4
05/2007 FirstRate Finance, Inc. 08/2004 Criminology, law and associated behaviors consultant. A-Net- Oasis/3CLIX.INFO. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 08/2007-Present 06/2006-Present Lead researcher: Establishing mortgage industry pool of potential research subjects. Building trust and rapport, conducting interviews, analyzing data, and testing research instruments. Conducting and establishing contacts within the community of Little Saigon, CA for dissertation research. Additionally, reestablishing old research contacts to establish a subject pool for extensive interviewing. 08/2004-12/2004 Research Assistant. Obtained life histories with second Vietnamese gang members. Developted contacts within the community, established relationships and rapport with gang invovled subjects to recruit.. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Society of Criminology Western Society of Criminology Phi Delta Gamma: National Graduate Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi: National Honor Society Alpha Phi Sigma: National Criminal Justice Honor Society CJSA: Criminal Justice Student Association National Association of Realtors Pacific West Association of Realtors REFERENCES Henry Pontell, Ph.D Criminology, law and Society Irvine, CA 92697 (949) 824-6153 hnpontel@uci.edu James Deigo Vigil, Ph.D Criminology, law and Society Irvine, CA 92697 (949) 824-6113 vigil@uci.edu 5
Elliot Currie, Ph.D Criminology, law and Society (949) 824-1387 ecurrie@uci.edu Rudolph David Torres, Ph.D Planning, Policy and Design (949) 824-7680 rodolfo@uci.edu Bruce Berg, Ph.D Department of Criminal Justice California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840 (562) 985-1895 bberg@csulb.edu 6