Author | Essay | Subject / notes |
Noah Charney | Introduction to Art & Crime & Art Crime in Context | Introduction to the book |
Derek Fincham | The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context | Importance of protecting archaeological sites from looters |
David Gill | Homecomings: Learning from the Return of Antiquities to Italy | Italy's pursuit of its artifacts from collections around the world |
Toby Bull | Lack of Due Diligence & Unregulated Markets: Trade in Illicit Antiquities & Fakes in Hong Kong, China | Art crime in China and the Hong Kong art market |
A. J. G. Tijhuis | Who Is Stealing All Those Paintings? | Criminological categorization of art thieves |
Silvia Loreti | The Affair of the Statuettes Re-Examined: Picasso & Apollinaire's Role in the Famed Louvre Theft | The theft of Mona Lisa, and Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso's roles in thefts from the Louvre, Paris |
Bojan Dobovšek | Art, Terrorism & Organized Crime | Balkan organised crime |
Kenneth Polk and Duncan Chappell | Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art Market | The criminal justice system's attitude to art crime |
Dorit Straus | Implication of Art Theft in the Fine Art Insurance Industry | Inner workings of the insurance industry |
Judah Best | Trepidations of a Private Art Collector | The risks to the private collector of art |
Colonel Giovanni Pastore | Defending Art | Italian police officer, head of Carabinieri Division for the Protection of Cultural Heritage on his career |
Dennis Ahern & Anthony Amore | Q&A with Two Revolutionary Security Directors | The security directors of the Tate Galleries and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
Stevan P. Layne | Exercises in Futility: The Pursuit of Protecting Art | Advice on museum security |
Dick Drent | Exhibition Security: Regular, Customized or Tailor Fit. | Security approach in Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam |
Travis McDade | The Quiet Crime: An Introduction to the World of Rare Book, Map and Document Theft | Map and rare book thefts |
John Kleberg | Unexpected and Accessible: Threats to University Collections | University art collections |
Richard Oram & Ann Hartley | Bringing It All Back Home: Recovery of Stolen Special Collections Materials | Recovery in high-profile cases |
Judge Arthur Tompkins | Art Theft: Heralds of Change in the International Legal Landscape. | Legal analysis focussing on theft of maps from Museo del Prado in Spain |
Dafydd Nelson | Economic Woe, Art Theft and Money Laundering – A Perfect Recipe | How to regulate the world art trade |
Erik Nemeth | The Artifacts of Wartime Art Crime: Evidence for a Model of the Evolving Clout of Cultural Property in Foreign Affairs | Wartime looting |
John Stubbs | Why Masterpieces Matter: Some Dogmatic Reflections | Conclusion reflecting on the importance of art |