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Art Crime » Read Now
by John E. Conklin. 326 pgs.

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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...
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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 tocurb 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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The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art » Read Now
by Hector Feliciano. 280 pgs.

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Bava Metziah Part I
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Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art » Read Now
by Thomas Carr Howe Jr.. 338 pgs.

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The Innocent Buyer of Art Looted during World War II, in Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law » Read Now
by Michelle I. Turner. 37 pgs.

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A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by Patricia Youngblood Reyhan. 51 pgs.

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The Case against Statutes of Limitations for Stolen Art, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now
by Steven A. Bibas. 33 pgs.

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Stealing the Show, in New Statesman » Read Now
by Sarahjane Checkland. 2 pgs.

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The Art of the Steal, in Foreign Policy » Read Now
by David Shillingford. 2 pgs.

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Defending East European Museums, in Contemporary Review » Read Now
by Thomas Land. 3 pgs.

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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? » Read Now
by Phyllis Mauch Messenger. 301 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library
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Museums Find Insider Rogues' Gallery, in Security Management » Read Now
by Michael A. Gips. 2 pgs.

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Adventures of a Mobile Masterpiece: One of Vermeer's Most Famous Paintings Has Been Twice Stolen - and Twice Restored, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Deirdre Mcquillan. 2 pgs.

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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ART; It's Enough to Make You Scream .. the Seemingly Glam World of Art Theft Is Really Full of Mindless Thugs, in Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) » Read Now
by Brian McIver. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library