The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit think tank on art crime. Based in Italy, but with an international scope, ARCA uses interdisciplinary methods to study art crime throughout history and across national borders. It also promotes knowledge and scholarship in the field and consults governments, law enforcement agencies, museums, places of worship, and other public institutions on art protection and recovery cases.
As part of this work, ARCA sponsors the world's first and only Master's program in Art Crime Studies, publishes the Journal of Art Crime, and hosts an annual conference on art crime.[1]