Includes index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Art Theft and Time Limits for Recovery: Do the Facts of the Crime Fit the Limits in Law? / Kenneth Polk and Duncan Chappell -- 2 Displacement, Deforestation, and Drugs: Antiquities Trafficking and the Narcotics Support Economies of Guatemala / Donna Yates -- 3 The Narrative Structure of Forgery Tales / Thierry Lenain -- 4 Forge and Export: The Trade in Fake Antiquities from China / Toby Bull and Stephan Gruber -- 5 Money, Art, and Laundering: Coming to Grips with the Risks / Petrus C. van Duyne , Lena Louwe and Melvin Soudijn -- 6 Art Crime as White-Collar Crime / Marc Balcells -- 7 Art Fraud in Germany: Lessons Learned or the Fast Falling into Oblivion? / Saskia Hufnagel -- 8 Corruption from the Top: The Getty and Caligula’s Legacy / Tanya K. Lervik and Marc Balcells -- 9 An Inside Job? The Case of Robert Noortman / Henk Schutten and Petrus C. van Duyne -- 10 From Crimes against Art to Crimes against Cultural Property: New Perspectives and Dimensions in Art Crime / Joris D. Kila -- 11 Illicit Traffic in Antiquities: Some Canadian Experiences / John M. Fossey -- 12 The Gurlitt Case: German and International Responses to Ownership Rights in Looting Cases / Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel -- 13 The Internet Market in Pre-Columbian Antiquities / Neil Brodie -- 14 Local and International Illicit Traffic in Vietnamese Cultural Property: A Preliminary Investigation / Damien Huffer and Duncan Chappell -- 15 Crime and Conflict: Temple Looting in Cambodia / Tess Davis and Simon Mackenzie -- 16 Transnational Forfeiture of the Getty Bronze / Derek Fincham -- 17 On Art, Crime, and Insanity The Role and Contribution of Mental Disorders / Frans Koenraadt -- Conclusion: Cultural Property Crime / Joris Kila and Marc Balcells -- Index.

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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. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK at a reduced price!