Kevin Walby and Randy K Lippert (eds), Corporate security in the 21st century: Theory and practice in international perspective
| Date | 01 September 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0004865816672142 |
| Published date | 01 September 2017 |
| Author | Kai Chen |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
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Kevin Walby and Randy K Lippert (eds), Corporate security in the 21st century: Theory and practice in
international perspective. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2014; 279 pp. ISBN 9781137346063,
$110.00 (hbk)
Reviewed by: Kai Chen, School of International Relations, Xiamen University, China
Corporate Security in the 21st Century, edited by Kevin Walby (Associate Professor and
Chancellor’s Research Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at University of
Winnipeg) and Randy K Lippert (Professor of Criminology at the University of
Windsor), reveals the different forms of regulatory and investigatory approaches used
against corporate insecurity and mismanagement in the early 21st century. The editors
and contributors analyse the reasons why corporate security succeeds or fails, and
address the alternatives to improve corporate security in the future.
In the opinion of the editors and contributors, corporate security is ‘the practice area
that provides the protection of people, information, and assets for a specific organiza-
tion, company, body, or group’ (p. 216). This volume contains an introduction and 13
chapters. In the introduction, the editors review the literature on corporate security, and
outline the chapters. Chapters 1 to 4 review the dynamics of corporate security from
theoretical perspectives, noting that it is necessary to establish a partnership between the
public and private sectors because ‘the coverage of state regulation is rarely complete,
tightly controlling the operations of some actors while leaving others untouched’ (p. 39).
The history of Ford corporate security illustrates the necessities of public–private
partnership, in which different stakeholders (e.g., public municipal government depart-
ments, security managers, fraud examiners, lawyers, and computer specialists) play
active roles across diverse areas of practice, such as electronic security and access con-
trol. In the case of security managers, they ‘increasingly see themselves as connected by
their shared expertise, competences, positions in companies, language, and membership
of networks and associations’ (p. 80). At the same time, private sector corporations
engage in business behaviour with implications for security, such as climate change
and organised crime.
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