Corporate Compliance and Conformity

12  Characteristics of Corporate Investigators

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-15

Rather than the traditional view of corporate investigations as a form of privatization of public policing, this chapter applies the perspective of alternative policing where there is a shift from the public sphere toward the private sphere across the policing landscape. The chapter addresses the following research question: What characteristics can be identified among corporate investigators who conduct alternative policing of financial crime? This research attempts to answer the research question by review of research on corporate investigators in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The typical corporate investigator has policing ...