Team Members Present at The Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Warsaw

Donna Yates presented "Variably Legal Markets for Fossils and Antiquities" as part of the pre-arranged panel "Variably Legal Markets: Rethinking Markets and Crime", chaired by Nicholas Lord (University of Manchester). The panel set out to move past the neat division between legal and criminal markets, a division that has never described the trade in fossils or antiquities very well, and Yates was joined by Letizia Paoli (KU Leuven) and Nicholas Lord, who introduced the concept, Francesco Calderoni (Transcrime, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) on cigarettes, and Annette Hübschle (University of Cape Town) on wildlife and wildlife parts. 

Konstantin Jänicke presented "The Criminal Use of Licit Sectors: How Licit Structures in the Luxury Watch Sector Enable Illicit Profits". Drawing on interviews with appraisers carried out within the PRICELESS consortium and the COST Action GLITSS, he showed how the discretion appraisers have over what a watch is worth, combined with the slipperiness of watches as part commodity and part luxury object, creates overlooked opportunities for money laundering and tax evasion.

In the same session, Iulia Vescan presented "Museum theft policing: Results from a scoping review of the international literature". Museum theft is a persistent problem that criminologists have largely left to art historians, archaeologists, and museologists, and her review maps this scattered, multilingual literature as the first step of a wider project on how museum theft is policed in Belgium and Romania.