Cultural Property Crime ─ An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends

In Cultural Property Crime, experts from a wide range of disciplines provide analytical insights into classical and contemporary criminal acts that affect our cultural heritage worldwide, both in peace and wartime.

Joris Kila, PhD (Amsterdam, 2012) is researcher at the University of Vienna's Kompetenzzentrum Kulturguterschutz and Editor in Chief of the Heritage and Identity series (Brill). He authored many publications on cultural property protection and received several awards for his book Heritage under Siege.Marc Balcells, MA, is a senior researcher at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Fulbright scholar. He holds degrees in Law, Criminology and Human Sciences, and masters both in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.Contributors are: Marc Balcells, Neil Brodie, Toby Bull, Duncan Chappell, Terressa Davis, Petrus van Duyne, Derek Fincham, John M. Fossey, Stefan Gruber, Damien Huffer, Saskia Hufnagel, Joris D. Kila, Frans Koenraadt, Thierry Lenain, Tanya K. Lervik, Lena Louwe, Simon Mackenzie, Stefano Manacorda, Kenneth Polk, Henk Schutten, Melvin Soudijn and Donna Yates.