The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Setting the Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Art Crime: Exposing a Panoply of Theft, Fraud and Plunder

      • Duncan Chappell, Saskia Hufnagel

      Pages 3-32

   3. One Looter, Two Looters, Three Looters … The Discipline of Cultural Heritage Crime Within Criminology and Its Inherent Measurement Problems

      • Marc Balcells

      Pages 33-53

   4. Art Crime Literature: A General Overview

      • Vicki Oliveri

      Pages 55-77

   5. The Antiquities Licit-Illicit Interface

      • Blythe Alison Bowman Balestrieri

      Pages 79-87

   6. INTERPOL and International Trends and Developments in the Fight Against Cultural Property Crime

      • Saskia Hufnagel

      Pages 89-106

3. Art Theft

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Art Theft: An Examination of Its Various Forms

      • Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk

      Pages 109-131

   3. Unsolved Art Thefts

      • Vicki Oliveri

      Pages 133-148

   4. “Purely Bent on Mischief”: Theft from Australian Museums 1870s–1950s

      • Maryanne McCubbin

      Pages 149-185

   5. Protecting Works of Art from Theft

      • Declan Garrett

      Pages 187-211

   6. Regional Overviews of the Policing of Art Crime in the European Union

      • Naomi Oosterman

      Pages 213-235

   7. Recovering Stolen Artworks: A Practical Approach

      • James Ratcliffe

      Pages 237-251

   8. Insurance Challenges and Art Crime

      • Dorit Straus

      Pages 253-270

   9. Statutes of Limitation and Other Legal Challenges to the Recovery of Stolen Art

      • Patty Gerstenblith

      Pages 271-285

4. Art Fraud and Forgery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287

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   2. Profiling Art Forgers

      • Noah Charney

      Pages 289-299

   3. Examining Art Fraud

      • Kenneth Polk, Duncan Chappell

      Pages 301-320

   4. Case Study 1: Beltracchi and the History of Art Fraud in Germany

      • Saskia Hufnagel

      Pages 321-342

This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.

• art theft
• art forgery
• cultural heritage
• money laundering
• art and terrorism
• museum heist
• faker
• stolen art
• looting
• white collar crime
• trafficking
• terrorism
• policing

“Everyone will find something of interest, though it is a work of neither interdisciplinarity nor theoretical innovation. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty.” (P. Beirne, Choice, Vol. 57 (5), January, 2020)

• School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

  Saskia Hufnagel

• University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Duncan Chappell

Saskia Hufnagel is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at Queen Mary University London. She previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), Griffith University, Australia, and was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She has widely published on international police cooperation and art crime. She is a qualified German legal professional and accredited specialist in criminal law.

Duncan Chappell is an Australian lawyer and criminologist and is currently an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  He has been a consultant to government and international bodies including the UN, ILO and Commonwealth and has researched and published widely on a range of crime and criminal justice topics, including art crime and trafficking in cultural property.

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