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Title: | Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy |
Author: | Balcells, Marc ![]() |
Citation: | Balcells, M. [Marc]. (2023). Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy. Trends Organ Crim . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-023-09509-x |
Abstract: | Tombaroli (the Italian name for looters of archaeological heritage) have criminally preyed on Italy’s ancient tombs for centuries. Criminological research on archaeo- logical looting in Italy, however, is scarce. This research focused on the nature of the relationship between tombaroli and organized crime groups in Italy: a misrepre- sented relationship, as some media outlets depict looters as involved with organized crime. This research project drew on a multidisciplinary body of literature on Italian archaeological looting and interviews with looters, law enforcement officials, ar- cheologists, prosecutors, and journalists, among others. It demonstrated that Italian archaeological looting is not a problem of organized crime. The study concluded that, presently, the relationship between looters and traditional Italian criminal or- ganizations is anecdotal at best, nor currently looters could be considered organized criminals but rather criminals that need a certain level of organization to operate. |
Keywords: | archaeological looting illicit trafficking of cultural heritage organized crime cultural heritage crime |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-023-09509-x |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 4-Oct-2023 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. ![]() |
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