Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Perspectives and Trends

2014 Brill hardcover edition. Some reading wear else good condition. From the cover: In Cultural Property Crime various experts in the fields of criminology, art law, heritage studies, law enforcement, forensic psychology, archaeology, art history and journalism provide multidisciplinary perspectives on today’s concept of cultural property crime, including art crime. In addition, the volume deals with international, legal and practical developments regarding the increasing criminalization of acts against cultural property in times of conflict. Attention is paid to the changing status and fluctuating appraisal of cultural property as subject to classical art crimes generally in peacetime and as an identity-related symbolic target during conflict. The book covers a wide range of topics such as forgeries, white-collar crime, archaeological looting and the impact of war on cultural heritage. Contents: PART 1 Art Theft 1 Art Theft and Time Limits for Recovery: Do the Facts of the Crime Fit the Limits in Law? by Kenneth Polk and Duncan Chappell PART 2 The Relationship between Cultural Heritage Crimes and Organized Crime 2 Displacement, Deforestation, and Drugs: Antiquities Trafficking and the Narcotics Support Economies of Guatemala by Donna Yates PART 3 Fakes and Forgeries 3 The Narrative Structure of Forgery Tales by Thierry Lenain 4 Forge and Export: The Trade in Fake Antiquities from China by Toby Bull and Stephan Gruber PART 4 Art and White-Collar Crime 5 Money, Art, and Laundering: Coming to Grips with the Risks by Petrus C. van Duyne, Lena Louwe, and Melvin Soudijn 6 Art Crime as White-Collar Crime by Marc Balcells 7 Art Fraud in Germany: Lessons Learned or the Fast Falling into Oblivion? by Saskia Hufnagel 8 Corruption from the Top: The Getty and Caligula's Legacy by Tanya K. Lervik and Marc Balcells 9 An Inside Job? The Case of Robert Noortman by Henk Schutten and Petrus C. van Duyne PART 5 Armed Conflicts and Cultural Property 10 From Crimes against Art to Crimes against Cultural Property: New Perspectives and Dimensions in Art Crime by Joris D. Kila 11 Illicit Traffic in Antiquities: Some Canadian Experiences by John M. Fossey 12 The Gurlitt Case: German and International Responses to Ownership Rights in Looting Cases by Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel PART 6 Archaeological Looting 13 The Internet Market in Pre-Columbian Antiquities by Neil Brodie 14 Local and International Illicit Traffic in Vietnamese Cultural Property: A Preliminary Investigation by Damien Huffer and Duncan Chappell 15 Crime and Conflict: Temple Looting in Cambodia by Tess Davis and Simon Mackenzie 16 Transnational Forfeiture of the Getty Bronze by Derek Fincham PART 7 Art Vandalism 17 On Art, Crime, and Insanity: The Role and Contribution of Mental Disorders by Frans Koenraadt Conclusion: Cultural Property Crime by Joris Kila and Marc Balcells.…