Threatened pasts: police officers, heritage practitioners, and victims of heritage crime
Journal: Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository)
Year: 2020

Heritage crime is a marginalised, misunderstood, and under-researched area of crime. The existing body of literature has largely failed to examine the experiences, attitudes towards, and understandings of heritage crime from the perspective of victims, the police, and heritage practitioners in England and Wales. Employing a qualitatively led mixed methods methodology, this is the first empirical piece of research which examines the lived realities of the victims of heritage crime and those polic