Loan shark: why/how youth chose loan sharking as an occupation?

• Main Authors: Loi, Chai Ken, Rodriguez, Adriana Maria Ortega, Abdullah, Haslinda
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65075/1/ICYOUTH2013-27.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65075/

Generally speaking, Loan Shark refers to those individuals or organizations that lend money at excessively and often illegally high rates of interest; and tend to use violent and harsh methods to collect debts. In Malaysia, there are on-going cases of helpless borrowers been beaten up and had their...