Cultural Property Crime

Joris Kila, PhD (Amsterdam, 2012) is researcher at the University of Vienna's Kompetenzzentrum Kulturgüterschutz and Editor in Chief of the Heritage and Identity series (Brill). He authored many publications on cultural property protection and received several awards for his book Heritage under Siege.Marc Balcells, MA, is a senior researcher at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Fulbright scholar. He holds degrees in Law, Criminology and Human Sciences, and masters both in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.Contributors are: Marc Balcells, Neil Brodie, Toby Bull, Duncan Chappell, Terressa Davis, Petrus van Duyne, Derek Fincham, John M. Fossey, Stefan Gruber, Damien Huffer, Saskia Hufnagel, Joris D. Kila, Frans Koenraadt, Thierry Lenain, Tanya K. Lervik, Lena Louwe, Simon Mackenzie, Stefano Manacorda, Kenneth Polk, Henk Schutten, Melvin Soudijn and Donna Yates.

"Overall, the book provides a kaleidoscopic vision of what we know as Art Crime, offering a balanced combination of theory and practice, using both current and historic cases. (...) This book has given us a new insight into the thinking of those who use their intellectual and professional capacity to try to keep the dark side at bay. Like the previous volumes [in the series], this new book is essential reading." Ignacio Rodríguez-Temiño, AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 5 (2015), pp. 203-205.

• ContentsPreface: Criminology in Art Crime: Some Lessons for the LegislatorsStefano ManacordaList of ContributorsPart 1- Art Theft1 Art Theft and Time Limits for Recovery: Do the Facts of the Crime Fit the Limits in Law?Kenneth Polk and Duncan ChappellPart 2 - The Relationship between Cultural Heritage Crimes and Organized Crime2 Displacement, Deforestation, and Drugs: Antiquities Trafficking and the Narcotics Support Economies of GuatemalaDonna YatesPart 3 - Fakes and Forgeries3 The Narrative Structure of Forgery TalesThierry Lenain4 Forge and Export: The Trade in Fake Antiquities from ChinaToby Bull and Stephan GruberPart 4 - Art and White-Collar Crime5 Money, Art, and Laundering: Coming to Grips with the RisksPetrus C. van Duyne, Lena Louwe, and Melvin Soudijn6 Art Crime as White-Collar CrimeMarc Balcells7 Art Fraud in Germany: Lessons Learned or the Fast Falling into Oblivion?Saskia Hufnagel8 Corruption from the Top: The Getty and Caligula’s LegacyTanya K. Lervik and Marc Balcells9 An Inside Job? The Case of Robert NoortmanHenk Schutten and Petrus C. van DuynePart 5 - Armed Conflicts and Cultural Property10 From Crimes against Art to Crimes against Cultural Property: New Perspectives and Dimensions in Art CrimeJoris D. Kila11 Illicit Traffic in Antiquities: Some Canadian ExperiencesJohn M. Fossey12 The Gurlitt Case: German and International Responses to Ownership Rights in Looting CasesDuncan Chappell and Saskia HufnagelPart 6 - Archaeological Looting13 The Internet Market in Pre-Columbian AntiquitiesNeil Brodie14 Local and International Illicit Traffic in Vietnamese Cultural Property: A Preliminary InvestigationDamien Huffer and Duncan Chappell15 Crime and Conflict: Temple Looting in CambodiaTess Davis and Simon Mackenzie16 Transnational Forfeiture of the Getty BronzeDerek FinchamPart 7 - Art Vandalism17 On Art, Crime, and Insanity. The Role and Contribution of Mental DisordersFrans KoenraadtConclusion: Cultural Property CrimeJoris Kila and Marc BalcellsIndex