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C.A. Parker's Store
No full textPhotograph - A dog team and a loaded sled on Strathcona Street in front of C.A. Parker's store, Athabasca, Albert
Eigen schuld van de architect
No full textRede, uitgesproken bij het afscheid als buitengewoon hoogleraar in het bouw- en woning recht aan de Technische Hogeschool Delft op vrijdag 21 februari 1986 door prof.mr C.A. Adriaansens.Architectur
Corporate Security - Private Justice?: (Un)Settling Employer-Employee Troubles
No full text‘Corporate security’ is a specialized form of private security providing services to private sector companies and also sometimes to public sector organizations, these services being tailored to the specific needs and interests of clients. This article focuses on those frequent instances where the private party acts independently from public law enforcement. Within this high degree of autonomy from public authorities, corporate security acts as an aspect of their clients’ management, keeping internal order by framing responses to economic crime in terms of secrecy, discretion, control and legal flexibility. Public law actors may however be tasked strategically – sometimes formally, sometimes informally – to assist with these purposes. This article focuses on the modus operandi of corporate security as observed in the Netherlands, setting this in the context of the international literature
A world apart?: Private investigations in the corporate sector
Get PDFThis article explores the investigative methods used by corporate security within organisations concerned about prop- erty misappropriation by their own staff and/or others. The research methods are qualitative: interviews, observations and case studies carried out between October 2012 and November 2015. The findings include that, even though corporate investigators do not have the formal investigative powers enjoyed by police and other public agencies, they do have multiple methods of investigation at their disposal, some of which are less used by public investigative agencies, for example the in-depth investigation of internal systems. Corporate investigators also rely heavily on interviews, the investigation of documentation and financial administration and the investigation of communication devices and open sources. However, there are many additional sources of information (for example, site visits or observations), which might be available to corporate investigators. The influences from people from different backgrounds, most notably (forensic) accountants, (former) police officers, private investigators and lawyers, together with the creativity that is necessary (and possible) when working without formal investigative powers, make corporate security a diverse field. It is argued that these factors contribute to a differentiation between public and private actors in the field of corporate security
The Semi-Autonomous World of Corporate Investigators: Modus vivendi, legality and control
Get PDFCorporate investigators provide investigative services to organisations faced with internal norm violations. Four main professional groups of corporate investigators can be identified in the Netherlands – private investigation firms, in-house security departments, forensic accountants and forensic legal investigators. These corporate investigators move in a semi-autonomous social field with a high level of discretion and autonomy. Extensive access to sources of information and settlement options, together with a context of highly fragmented legal frameworks, produce a corporate security sector that can provide its clients with a choice of solutions for norm violations. Corporate investigators are highly flexible in their investigatory work and in relation to the settlements that they recommend to their clients. Corporate investigators incorporate normative and reputational considerations, such as due process and fair play, into their day-to-day business. They largely work autonomously, engaging the criminal justice system only when this is considered desirable in the light of pragmatic or normative considerations. Other settlement options involve engaging civil and labour courts, arranging matters through out-of-court settlement agreements and making use of internal (labour) regulations of the organisation. Cooperation between law enforcement agencies and corporate investigators is fairly rare – public/private relationships are better conceptualised as coexistence, with public and private actors meeting only on an ad hoc basis. This means that the state has little insight into what happens in the corporate security sector. While this has the benefit for society that the criminal justice system is spared the trouble and costs of investigating and prosecuting these matters, it also means there is effectively no democratic control over the corporate security sector. For reasons of transparency and control, it may be wise to make the private investigation permit – now only obligatory for private investigation firms – a prerequisite for all corporate investigators, regardless of their professional or institutional background. As a result of the empirical work reported upon, it is proposed that control over such a permit system should be placed with the Dutch Data Protection Authority, rather than the police
C.A. McGill, March 23, 1918
No full textPortrait of C.A. McGill. Written on verso: With love from C.A. McGill Monrovia, Liberia, March 23rd, 1918.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Over pragmatisme en strategie
No full textAan de hand van observatie- en interviewdata wordt in dit artikel ingegaan op het dagelijks werk van corporate security actoren. De methoden die private onderzoekers gebruiken voor hun onderzoek naar onregelmatigheden binnen bedrijven en de verschillende vormen van private afhandeling daarvan komen aan bod. Betoogd wordt dat publieke actoren en instituties (politie en justitie maar ook (straf- en civielrechtelijke) rechtbanken) op een selectieve en strategische manier worden gemobiliseerd door corporate security ten behoeve van hun cliënten, in plaats van dat er een leidersrol wordt vervuld door deze publieke actoren. Corporate security en klanten zoeken bewust naar de meest optimale oplossing voor het voorhanden zijnde probleem (forum shopping), zij het via het publiek(-/straf)recht of het privaatrecht
Security: Concepts and Definitions
No full textThe concept of security literally refers to “a state of being free from danger or threat” (Oxford Dictionary). This is a very broad definition, and the word security is therefore used in different ways in different contexts. It may refer to a state of being free from many kinds of dangers and threats (e.g., war, unemployment, illness, or accidents). Some commentators have identified the fact that when security is used in this broad way, what is actually meant is insecurity (see, e.g., Schuilenburg and Van Steden 2014). In this context, it is important to point out the difference between “security from” (shielding from harm) and “security to” (enabling people to pursue their goals) (Crawford and Hutchinson 2016)
Publiek-privaat of privaat-publiek?: De particuliere onderzoeksmarkt nader bekeken
No full textOp basis van kwalitatief onderzoek wordt een inkijkje gegeven in de wereld van particuliere onderzoekers. Het gangbare idee dat de particuliere veiligheidssector een aanvulling vormt op dat wat de staat biedt, wordt kritisch tegen het licht gehouden en omgedraaid – het onderzoek laat zien dat particuliere onderzoekers en hun cliënten eerst kijken naar een privaatrechtelijke oplossing, die vervolgens eventueel kan worden aangevuld met een aangifte
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