The TRANSFORM Project studies the complex relationships between people and objects and how those relationships can lead to crime.
TRANSFORM doesn’t just focus on criminal acts.
We are interested in legal interactions with objects too.
By learning about the legal and illegal networks that form around antiquities, wildlife, and fossils we hope to better understand why people break the law and to develop better ways to protect these objects.
Dr Donna Yates will be participating in this event hosted by the UNESCO Chair on Business Integrity and Crime Prevention in the Art and Antiquities Market to be held
Dr Donna Yates will be participating in The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum’s 3rd Summer School, under the theme “Museum’s Democracy, Citizenship”, in Lisbon, Portugal. Yates will be speaking on the panel
Dr Donna Yates will give a keynote speech on 30 January 2024 at event titled “Dialogue with the art market” organised by the European Commission. The event is taking place
Bērziņa took part in “la vente illégale sur le marché de l’art” conference organised by Anthemis.
Diāna Bērziņa was part on an expert panel focusing on monitoring compliance with art market regulations at a conference “la vente illégale sur le marché de l’art” organised by Anthemis
On 2 November Dr Donna Yates gave a presentation titled “Crime in Collections: Patterns, Priorities, and Hidden Knowledge” at a conference “The Market for Latin American Antiquities” organised by co-organized
Yates speaking at the“The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts” conference
Dr Donna Yates will give a talk at “The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts” conference taking place from 27 to 29 September 2023 at the University of Hamburg. Yates
The seductions of conformity: the criminological importance of a phenomenology of exchange
Mackenzie, S. (2009) ‘The seductions of conformity: the criminological importance of a phenomenology of exchange’, in Arrigo, B.A. and Milovanovic, D. (eds.) Existentialist criminology. London: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 197–221. Available on
Mackenzie, S. (2008) ‘Second‐chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes’, Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), pp. 214–239. Abstract: The growing application of
Irregularly Regulated Collecting Markets: Antiquities, Fossils, and Wildlife
Mackenzie, S., Yates, D., Hübschle, A. and Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Irregularly regulated collecting markets: antiquities, fossils, and wildlife’, Crime, Law and Social Change. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-024-10171-9
Human–Object Hybrid in Our Lives and Crime
Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Human–object hybrid in our lives and crime’, Deviant Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2376862 Abstract: The material turn with its emphasis on the role objects play in shaping human experiences
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘T. rex is fierce, T. rex is charismatic, T. rex is litigious: Disruptive objects in affective desirescapes’, International Journal of Cultural Property. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739124000055
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape’, Journal of Material Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/135918352412482
