Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World (Hardcover, 2022)

Introduction.- Part I: Methods.- Transiting Through the Antiquities Market.- Exploring Taste Formation and Performance in the Illicit Trade of Human Remains on Instagram.- #antiquitiesdealers.- Evaluating the transformative potential of Photovoice for research into the global illicit trade in cultural objects.- A New Method of Forensic Archaeology.- Part II: Theory.- Cuneiform exceptionalism?.- Crime, Material and Meaning in Art World Desirescapes.- Authentically Exotic and Authentically Beautiful.- “Blitzkrieg Against Black Magic”.- Art Crime and the Myth of Violence.- Part III: Data Applications.- Small Museums, Big Problems.- Guardians in the Antiquities Market.- More Than Just Money.- Offender Motivations and Expectations of Data in Antiquities Looting.- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Clock.