Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Perspectives and Trends (Heritage and Identity, 3)

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.

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.