The subject of many films and books, art theft continues to capture the popular imagination. However, it is one of many types of art crime that remain under-researched and which require much more academic, empirical investigation.
Hence a book by John Kerr, of the University of Roehampton in west London. The Securitization and Policing of Art Theft: The Case of London examines who is performing, managing, governing and controlling the securitization and policing of art theft in London. Through interviews with security people in that sector, the work seeks to give the first map of the policing and securitization of one of the world’s largest centres of art, towards understanding of art security at city, national and international levels. It also offers practical recommendations for those who operate within art security.
Providing an account of the London art security terrain, this book covers policing, environmental criminology and insurance. Moreover, it adds to the previous research into the traditionally restricted worlds of private policing, public policing and the art world.
Read the preface on the Ashgate website.
Contents:
Preface; Problematic of art theft. Part I Co-Production of Risk: Situating risk and situating security. Part II The Co-Production of Security: Public police and security; The private sector: security, investigation and loss adjustment; Insurance as enabling risk and security; Governmental nodes enabling security beyond insurance; The co-production of London art security using nodal governance: the present and future; Final conclusions. Bibliography; Index. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4451-6.
