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Art Crime (Hardcover, New)
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Art Crime (Hardcover, New)
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This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range
of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling,
and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the
boom years of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through
the 1990s, and assimilating information from a variety of sources:
art magazines, newspaper accounts, and the relatively small amount
of scholarship on art crime by art historians and criminologists.
In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks
at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of thefts
that are committed, the ways thieves locate art to steal and how
they gain access to it, their use of insiders and fronts, and the
way they launder stolen art. The relationship between art theft and
organized crime, especially drug traffickers, is investigated.
After looking at explanations of art vandalism and the way vandals
explain their behavior, the book concludes with a consideration of
policies to curb art crime. The entire book is written in a highly
entertaining way, packed with case studies of numerous crimes and
stories of smuggling, grave-robbing, and skullduggery, that will
appeal to a general audience as well as professionals and academics
in criminology, sociology, and art history.
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