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.
Yates speaking at GIJN conference on 2 November
Dr Donna Yates will speak at Global Investigative Journalism Conference taking place online, 1-5 November. Dr Yates will participate in session titled The New Organized Crime taking place on 2
Mackenzie’s inaugural lecture now available online
Dr Simon Mackenzie’s inaugural lecture titled “Cryptocurrency scams and criminology” covered some of the scams currently flourishing in this new and alternative financial system. The lecture is now available online.
Mackenzie giving a talk on NFTs and cryptocurrency, 7 September
Dr Simon Mackenzie will give a talk titled ‘Bored apes and cryptopunks: Can you really make a million flipping jpegs in the new cyber economy of digital art’ to the
Hübschle on The “Crime Spot meets SHERLOC” podcast
Dr. Annette Hübschle makes an appearance on the “Crime Spot meets SHERLOC” podcast. This podcast explores ‘transnational organized crime investigations, whilst drawing on the expertise of UNODC and the open-source
Dr Donna Yates will give a lecture titled “The antiquities trade: Defining a grey market?” at online summer school Cross Border Transfer of Cultural Objects: the Law, Challenges, and Practice.
Yates will participate in a roundtable discussion on Decolonisation at EAA 2021
Dr Donna Yates will participate in roundtable Session #376. “Expanding Horizons: Decolonisation, Contested Ownership of Archaeological Material, and the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property” at the 2021 annual meeting
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Magliocca, Nicholas, Aurora Torres, Jared Margulies, Kendra McSweeney, Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Neil Carter, Kevin Curtin, Tara Easter, Meredith Gore, Annette Hübschle, Francis Massé, Aunshul Rege, and Elizabeth Tellman (2021) Comparative Analysis
Protecting a Broken Window: Vandalism and Security at Rural Rock Art Sites
Yates, Donna, Diāna Bērziņa, and Aaron Wright (2021) Protecting a Broken Window: Vandalism and Security at Rural Rock Art Sites. The Professional Geographer.
Investigating Antiquities Trafficking
Yates, Donna (2021) Investigating Antiquities Trafficking. Global Investigative Journalism Network , 20 September: online.
NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives
Mackenzie, Simon and Diāna Bērziņa (2021) NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives. Crime,Media,Culture.
Bērziņa, Diāna and Donna Yates (2021) Challenging the status quo. Review of: Field, Les , Cristóbal Gnecco & Joe Watkins (eds). Challenging the dichotomy: the licit and the illicit in
Regulating the Wild West: Symbolic Security Bubbles and White Collar Crime in the Art Market
Oosterman, Naomi, Simon Mackenzie, and Donna Yates (2021) Regulating the Wild West: Symbolic Security Bubbles and White Collar Crime in the Art Market. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime,