The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime

This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.

Author Biography

Saskia Hufnagel is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at Queen Mary University London. She previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), Griffith University, Australia, and was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She has widely published on international police cooperation and art crime. She is a qualified German legal professional and accredited specialist in criminal law.

Duncan Chappell is an Australian lawyer and criminologist and is currently an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  He has been a consultant to government and international bodies including the UN, ILO and Commonwealth and has researched and published widely on a range of crime and criminal justice topics, including art crime and trafficking in cultural property.