Art Crime

List of contents

Introduction
The Value of Art
Fakes and Forgeries
Fraud
Art Theft: Opportunities and Motives
The Social Organization of Art Theft
The Distribution of Stolen Art
Vandalism
Curbing Art Crime
Bibliography
Index

About the author

JOHN E. CONKLIN is Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. He is the author of a successful textbook, Criminology (Fifth Edition will be published in 1995), as well as Sociology: An Introduction (1987, 1984), Illegal but Not Criminal: Business Crime in America (1977) The Impact of Crime (1975)

bbery and the Criminal Justice System (1972)

and editor of The Crime Establishment: Organized Crime and American Society (1973).

Product details

• Authors: John Conklin, John E Conklin
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1994
• EAN: 9780275947712
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94771-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 567 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime, ART / Business Aspects, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks, Causes and prevention of crime, Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks, ART / Forgeries