"Lessons Learned" is a collection of short stories written by Donna Yates. Each story deals with the importance of being true to one's own system of values, whether that system speaks of love, life, or anything that may fall in between. We all face those moments when we must decide, before we take action, to either listen to our hearts or ignore what we know to be right. "Lessons Learned" is about making those decisions and living with the consequences of actions taken based upon them. sometimes the consequences of our actions are fulfilling, sad, and sometimes downright funny. When we are...

This volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "art crimes", with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application. Criminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in academic discourse on art and culture related crimes. However, to understand topics like theft, security, trafficking, forgery, vandalism, offender motivation, the efficacy of and results of policy...

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader contexts. In this volume, we see ‘art’ in its usual forms for art crime scholarship: in paintings and antiquities. However, we also see art in fossils and in violins, chairs and jewellery, holes in the ground and even in the institutions meant to protect any, or all, of the above. And where there is art, there is crime. Chapters in this volume,...