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Heritage, Crisis, and Community Crime Prevention in Nepal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2018

Donna Yates  and
Simon Mackenzie
Donna Yates
Affiliation:
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Email: donna.yates@glasgow.ac.uk
Simon Mackenzie
Affiliation:
School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Email: simon.mackenzie@vuw.ac.nz
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Abstract:

Following Nepal’s 2015 earthquake, there was speculation that sacred art would be looted from the ruins of severely damaged temples due to a breakdown in formal security. Although pillage did not immediately occur, the months following the earthquake have seen the theft of sacred heritage items. As Nepali sacred art remains under threat of theft, we explore the processes by which government intervention can be destructive of the community dynamic that maintains local crime prevention on an informal and unofficial level. Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal shortly before and after the earthquake, we ask: can situational crime prevention measures, when imposed in a top-down fashion upon communities by state actors, be corrosive of collective efficacy and, therefore, ultimately self-defeating in crime prevention terms? The case of post-quake Nepal seems to suggest that the answer to this question is, in some circumstances, yes.

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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 203 - 221
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2018 

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