Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime

Michelle D. Fabiani is an assistant professor of criminal justice in the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, located in the United States. Kate Melody Burmon is a researcher scholar affiliated with the Ronan Institute, located in the United States. Saskia Hufnagel is a reader in criminal law and co-director of the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) at Queen Mary University of London, located in the United Kingdom.

List of contributors

PART 1

Challenges of ownership: Past and present

1 Introduction

MICHELLE D. FABIANI

2 Different strokes for different folks: A re-evaluation of the ontology of provenance research towards a more responsive research discipline

GARETH FLETCHER

3 Whose duty is it anyway? On the burden of proof in applying due diligence standards when dealing with cultural property

PAUL FABEL AND LOUISA KIMMIG

4 The cycle of good faith: Evaluating the status of due diligence in the art market

AUBREY CATRONE

5 What auction catalogue analysis cannot tell us about the market: Sotheby’s 2013 sale of Pre-Columbian objects from the Barbier-Mueller collection

DONNA YATES

PART 2

The intersection of art, antiquities, and currency crimes

6 Money laundering and art: Correlations of crime financing and money laundering cost to criminal decision making

KATHARINA STOLL

7 Protection of cultural objects against money laundering: Contributions of rational choice theory

DIOGO MACHADO AND LEILA OLLAIK

8 More than antiquities trafficking: The issue is antiquities laundering

ANNA MOSNA

PART 3

Innovative research and challenges in the field

9 Radiocarbon dating method and the protection of cultural heritage

IRKA HAJDAS

10 The space between: Spatial patterns of archaeological looting attempts and conflict in Lower Egypt

MICHELLE D. FABIANI

11 “Do you expect us to throw it all away?”: Thirty years of looted Iraqi cuneiform archives

LUISE LOGES

12 Challenges to study: Difficulties arising in studying fine art theft

KATE MELODY BURMON

PART 4

Policing and policy

13 Offences relating to “dealing” in cultural property: The UK approach

EMILY GOULD

14 Metal detecting in England and Wales: A transatlantic problem

ADAM DAUBNEY

15 Countering illicit trafficking of cultural property in Ukraine

VOLODYMYR HULKEVYCH

16 Connecting the dots: Models of public-private cooperation in cultural property crime policing

RICHARD VAN HERZEELE

17 ISIS, blood antiquities, and the international fight against terrorism financing

COSTANZA MUSU

18 Conclusion

KATE MELODY BURMON

Index