{"product_id":"art-crime-9780275947712","title":"Art Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665851768885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0275947718","price":114.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-crime-9780275947712","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}