Journal articles: 'Private investigators in fiction'

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Bubíková, Šárka, and Olga Roebuck. "Female Investigators:." American & British Studies Annual 15 (December 21, 2022): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2022.15.2432.

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While the crime genre may have seemed as purely masculine for the greater part of its history, feminist critics looking for the roots of female crime writing have found a rich history of both the woman crime writer as well as the woman detective. Since the 1980s there has been not only a pronounced resurgence of interest in crime fiction, but also a boom of female detectives created by female writers. Focusing on works by Robert Galbraith, Denise Mina, Linda Barnes, Dana Stabenow and S. J. Rozan, this article explores some of the ways the traditionally masculine private eye subgenre can be appropriated to accommodate a female protagonist. Comparing a variety of protagonists and narrative strategies, it further argues that, perhaps paradoxically, the originally dominantly masculine hardboiled PI tradition seems well accommodating to female (even feminist) appropriations.

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Schneiderman, Leo. "Norman Mailer and Rank's Theory of the Creative Self." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 14, no. 1 (September 1994): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/5bc6-cxca-d48t-n941.

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The present article investigates Mailer's fiction and non-fiction in relation to Rank's views on creativity. Both Rank and Mailer are interpreted as examples of artists who invent themselves, the former as an intuitive therapist, the latter as the creator of a public and private persona. In Mailer's case, projections of the persona are traced to his fictional alter egos. Special attention is given to analyzing the significance of Mailer's creation of fictional protagonists who act out antisocial, anarchic impulses in a seemingly conflict-free way. This tendency, which characterizes Mailer's work as a whole, is interpreted in non-oedipal terms. Instead, I suggest a theoretical formulation, applicable to many contemporary writers besides Mailer, based on the assumption that patriarchal authority is in the process of disintegration. The reasons for this assumption lie outside the scope of this article but are to be found in rapid social changes reflecting the decline of tradition, including traditional family structure, religion and other patriarchal institutions.

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Bettaglio, Marina. "Locuras detectivescas en La detective miope de Rosa Ribás." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 3 (May 23, 2017): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v3i0.625.

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Resumen: En La detective miope la escritora española Rosa Ribás lleva a cabo una inversión paródica de las normas de la literatura detectivesca al crear una investigadora privada recién salida de una institución psiquiátrica. A diferencia de los métodos deductivos empleados por eminentes detectives del siglo XIX, Irene Ricart subvierte las leyes de la lógica al resolver el enigma del brutal asesinato del que fueron víctimas su esposo y su hija. Mientras su vista se va deteriorando progresivamente, esta detective tan peculiar logra desenmascarar a los culpables del doble asesinato y acabar con los asesinos en una trama circular marcada por la locura. Questioning Rationality in Rosa Ribas’ La detective miope Abstract: In La detective miope, Spanish writer Rosa Ribás carries out a parodic inversion of the norms of detective fiction by giving voice to a private investigator, who has been recently released from a mental institution. Contrary to the deductive methods employed by eminent 19th century detectives, Ribás nearsighted private eye Irene Ricart subverts every law of logic to solve the enigma of her daughter and husband’s brutal killing. As her eyesight deteriorates, this unconventional detective unmasks a network of criminal activities, kills the killers and ends full circle in the same clinic where she originally was at the beginning of the novel.

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Radavičiūtė, Jūratė. "The Subversion of the Meanings of Food Tropes in Salman Rushdie’s Novel “Midnight’s Children”." Respectus Philologicus 42, no. 47 (October 7, 2022): 65–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2022.42.47.109.

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The article investigates the subversion of the meanings of food tropes in Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s Children”. The research is carried out within the theoretical framework of Postethnic Narrative Criticism, which postulates that historical and political contexts are relevant for understanding and interpreting the postethnic literary work; however, literature should not be perceived as an accurate representation of reality outside the world of fiction or interpreted as such. The article provides an analysis of the key connotations of the tropes in the description of Doctor Aziz and his family, emphasizing that food-related tropes are restricted to the private life of the characters discussed and are mainly associated with female characters. In portraying the Azizes’ children, the initial meanings of the tropes are subverted and undermined. The process of subversion is determined by societal changes which impact the main characters’ public and private lives.

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De Matas, Jarrel Kristan Zakhary. "The Future of Public Health through Science Fiction." Humanities 11, no. 5 (October 16, 2022): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11050127.

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This study investigates the ability of science fiction to address issues that emerge in public health. The issues that form the focus of this paper include the spread of misinformation and disinformation, dependence on technology, and competent public-private partnerships that serve the interests of society. Each of these issues is brought under the spotlight by Barbadian sociologist Karen Lord in ‘The Plague Doctors’ and American psychiatrist Justin C. Key in ‘The Algorithm Will See You Know’. The stories, although set in unrealized futures and describe as yet inconceivable advancements in technology, contain real-world problems involved in accessing healthcare. In doing so, both writers attend to the viability of literature, and the humanities in general, as a vehicle for encouraging reform to public health policies that face challenges such as inequities in healthcare and raising greater awareness of health concerns. My study bridges public health and literature, specifically science fiction, to get certain messages across. These messages include effectively communicating risks to people’s health, increasing understanding of social responsibility, and addressing uncertainty with transparency. The stories in question reveal futures where public health management has, for the most part, either got it right, in the case of ‘The Plague Doctors’, or not quite, in the case of ‘The Algorithm Will See You Now’. Because I consider the COVID-19 pandemic to be less of a disruptor to public health and more of a revealer of what public health needs to focus on, I foresee interdisciplinary projects such as mine as crucial to bridging the disconnect between people and public health policies.

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Berberich, Christine. "Detecting the Past: Detective Novels, the Nazi Past, and Holocaust Impiety." Genealogy 3, no. 4 (December 7, 2019): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3040070.

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Crime writing is not often associated with Holocaust representations, yet an emergent trend, especially in German literature, combines a general, popular interest in crime and detective fiction with historical writing about the Holocaust, or critically engages with the events of the Shoah. Particularly worthy of critical investigation are Bernhard Schlink’s series of detective novels focusing on private investigator Gerhard Selb, a man with a Nazi background now investigating other people’s Nazi pasts, and Ferdinand von Schirach’s The Collini Case (2011) which engages with the often inadequate response of the post-war justice system in Germany to Nazi crimes. In these novels, the detective turns historian in order to solve historic cases. Importantly, readers also follow in the detectives’ footsteps, piecing together a slowly emerging historical jigsaw in ways that compel them to question historical knowledge, history writing, processes of institutionalised commemoration and memory formation, all of which are key issues in Holocaust Studies. The aims of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, I will argue that the significance of this kind of fiction has been insufficiently recognised by critics, perhaps in part because of its connotations as popular fiction. Secondly, I will contend that these texts can be fruitfully analysed by situating them in relation to recent debates about pious and impious Holocaust writing as discussed by Gillian Rose and Matthew Boswell. As a result, these texts act as exemplars of Rose’s contention that impious Holocaust literature succeeds by using new techniques in order to shatter the emotional detachment that has resulted from the use of clichés and familiar tropes in traditional pious accounts; and by placing detectives and readers in a position of moral ambivalence that complicates their understanding of the past on the one hand, and their own moral position on the other.

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Teel, Linda. "Activities and Strategies for the Inclusion of a K-12 Educational Component in Digitization Grant Projects of Academic Libraries." Education Libraries 33, no. 2 (September 19, 2017): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v33i2.293.

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This article seeks to explore and discuss activities and strategies for including a K-12 educational component in digitization grant projects in academic libraries. The article is based on cases studying the K-12 educational component of the three following grants awarded to East Carolina University Joyner Library by North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (NC ECHO) grant program: Digitizing Eastern North Carolina History, Fiction and Artifacts: The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/), Seeds of Change: The Daily Reflector Image Collection (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/reflector/), and Ensuring Democracy Through Digital Access: North Carolina Government Publications Collection (beta testing). Planning, budgeting, implementation, promotion and lessons learned are discussed offering first-hand experiences in effective methods to integrate activities and strategies into digitization projects providing access to useful resources for all users with a focus on K-12 educators and students. The author‘s interest in this topic is based on cumulative experiences of involvement in the listed digitization grant projects as a private investigator and as an educational consultant of the above grants. Lessons learned are highlighted providing readers with specific, valuable details for consideration to improve future digitization projects.

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King, Michael. "Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia." International Journal of Police Science & Management 22, no. 3 (June 23, 2020): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355720931887.

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The business of private investigation has grown significantly in the past two decades. No longer can private investigating be considered an obscure form of private policing. Yet, despite the recent growth of interest in private policing, little research has been conducted on the services provided by private investigators. This article presents the results of an analysis of 33 in-depth interviews with Australian private investigators in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The article discusses their contemporary role in the context of providing justice, public policing and future regulatory challenges. The article extends the limited research on the services private investigators provide, including corporate fraud and financial investigations, risk advisory, and cyber and misconduct investigations. It identifies their backgrounds and education, and describes their clients. The study found that, contrary to expectations, to meet these new services, private investigators are now highly qualified academically and professionally. It was found that regulatory gaps have been created in the licensing of contemporary private investigators, and the use of private investigators allows clients to sidestep the justice system.

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King, Michael. "Profiting from a tainted trade: private investigators’ views on the popular culture glamorisation of their trade." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 7, no. 2 (February 17, 2021): 112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-07-2020-0050.

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Purpose The public fascination for private investigators has led to an abundance of imagery in popular culture media. This study aims to examine the views of practising private investigators regarding their professional images of dirty work. Design/methodology/approach To fill the gap in the literature, this study used data collected from semi-structured interviews with 33 industry practitioners from 3 Australian states. The paper investigates private investigator’s perceptions about themselves/job roles and the public perceptions of private investigators in Australia. Interviews were recorded and transcripts created. A thematic analysis of the interview transcripts was undertaken. Findings Private investigators were drawn from a range of professions, including public policing and government regulation. The findings indicate that the reality differs from the images typically portrayed in popular culture. Interviewees discussed the contrasts between media images and reality, providing a more complex portrayal of private investigation and what private investigators find satisfying and challenging about their work. Practical implications This study is helpful for improving the understanding of private policing, the media views of policing, those who conduct work within an environment considered to be tainted and their views of self. Originality/value Using a qualitative research design, this paper offers insights into the challenges facing private investigators and how they reconcile being in a tainted occupation with providing a necessary service to the community.

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Gill, Martin, and Jerry Hart. "Private investigators in Britain and America." Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 20, no. 4 (December 1997): 631–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13639519710192869.

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Rowe, Raymond C. "Private prescription: Science fiction – fictional science?" Drug Discovery Today 6, no. 11 (June 2001): 561–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1359-6446(01)01814-1.

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Vuohelainen, Minna. "‘[B]etween power and the people’: Journalist-Investigators in Nordic Crime Fiction." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 1 (March 2020): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0007.

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Recent Nordic crime fiction contains numerous amateur detectives who are professional journalists. Their presence is partly explained by the shared roots and formal affinities of crime reportage and crime fiction, and by the journalistic backgrounds of many Nordic crime writers. However, the rise of the journalist-investigator as a rival to traditional police detectives is also a mark of growing distrust in the competence of the Nordic welfare state and its officials. Nordic journalist-investigators are typically crusading reporters motivated by a desire to uncover and prevent social injustice, including the neglect and abuse of vulnerable social groups by absent, incompetent or corrupt public officials. In acting as moral guardians of social justice, journalist-investigators carry out the principle of the press as a fourth estate, designed to check state power by publicising abuses of authority, and signal a possible shift from the welfare state towards a civil society. However, this role is also compromised by the ethical dilemmas journalist-investigators face between the demands of uncovering information, protecting vulnerable witnesses, informing the public, preventing crime and meeting commercial imperatives. These conflicts spotlight troubling tendencies within crime fiction and crime reportage: both kinds of writing are underpinned by a narrative structure of anticipation, suspense and dramatic revelation and premised upon the reader's voyeuristic investment in sensational subjects.

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Lee, Chang-Hun, and Ilhong Yun. "Factors affecting police officers’ tendency to cooperate with private investigators." Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 37, no. 4 (November 11, 2014): 712–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-10-2013-0101.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence police officers’ tendency to cooperate with private investigators. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey method was used on a sample of 377 police officers in South Korea. Findings – The findings suggested that, unlike previous literature, police officers’ rational choice (cost vs benefit calculation) was the most important factor, and characteristics of cases also significantly influenced police officers’ tendency to work with private investigators. Also, officers’ job assignment was relevant, unlike the organizational cultural context for cooperation. Originality/value – Prior studies have continuously emphasized the importance of cooperation between public police and private police (particularly private investigators) in order to enhance effectiveness in crime fighting and the preventive functions of policing. However, the studies have not produced empirical evidence as to how cooperation between the two sectors could be enhanced. This study fills this void in the literature.

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Gottschalk, Petter. "When private internal investigators turn against the whistleblower." International Journal of Police Science & Management 19, no. 4 (September 18, 2017): 229–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355717730835.

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The work of fraud examiners in private internal investigations is important to many auditing and law firms. They are hired by public and private organizations when there are suspicions of misconduct and financial crime. Such suspicions are sometimes disclosed by whistleblowers who attempt to disclose practices that they perceive as illegal, immoral or illegitimate. This article presents a case from the Norwegian police in which whistleblowers expressed concerns about overtime, use of private cars, and the procurement of equipment for personal use. The main whistleblower was also the ombudsman within the organization, where he repeated his accusations and allegations so frequently that he became the main subject of the private internal investigation. This study finds some support for the blame game hypothesis.

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King, Michael. "The contemporary role of private investigators in Australia." Criminal Justice Matters 89, no. 1 (September 2012): 12–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2012.721966.

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Iskander, Sylvia Patterson. "Arabic Adventurers and American Investigators: Cultural Values in Adolescent Detective Fiction." Children's Literature 21, no. 1 (1993): 118–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chl.0.0266.

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Heinze, Alexander. "Evidence Illegally Obtained by Private Investigators and Its Use Before International Criminal Tribunals." New Criminal Law Review 24, no. 2 (2021): 212–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2021.24.2.212.

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This article examines the rationales to exclude evidence before International Criminal Tribunals that has been illegally obtained by private investigators. The appeal of private investigations has now reached the level of international criminal justice, with the establishment of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability. Investigative staff at the International Criminal Court and other International Criminal Tribunals are dependent on the work undertaken in the field by human rights monitors as fact finders, employed by IGOs, NGOs, and, in some cases, by governmental agencies. Considering the importance of private investigators for the administration of those Tribunals, potential dangers of such a cooperation easily take a backseat in a car that is driven by the anti-impunity agenda. Scenarios of investigators offering money to witnesses in return for information about a suspect and his or her criminal activities are a reality. While case law has addressed the topic of illegally obtained evidence by national authorities, the fate of evidence collected by private individuals in breach of human rights has rather been neglected. This article provides a conceptual basis for the exclusion or admission of this evidence.

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Null, Linda, and Suellen Alfred. "Personal Reading: A Fine and Private Austen." English Journal 96, no. 2 (November 1, 2006): 84–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej20065725.

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Fraser, Robert, and William A. Cohen. "Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction." Modern Language Review 93, no. 2 (April 1998): 483. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735382.

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Martin, Carol A., William A. Cohen, and Sutherland John. "Sex Scandal, the Private Parts of Victorian Fiction." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 52, no. 1 (1998): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1348298.

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Gricnko, V. I. "SOME ISSUES OF LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS ACTIVITIES." South Ukrainian Law Journal 1, no. 3 (2021): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32850/sulj.2021.3.1.3.

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Sharma, Ms Shikha. "Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 7 (July 27, 2020): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10673.

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Doris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels.

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Jeffreys, Elaine. "Regulating private affairs in contemporary China: Private investigators and the policing of spousal infidelity." China Information 24, no. 2 (July 2010): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0920203x09356047.

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Aitaki, Georgia. "Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television." Journal of Greek Media & Culture 6, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 219–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00014_1.

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This article draws from interviews with creators of television fiction (directors and screenwriters) with professional experience in Greek private television and examines how and why fiction programmes are produced in a commercial context. By focusing on the first decade of private television in Greece, an era popularly remembered as the ‘golden age of Greek television’, this study makes use of accounts from ‘exclusive informants’ in order to complicate facile assumptions about the relationship between commercialization, ideology and entertainment. As such, this article aspires to update the (limited) scholarship on Greek television production culture and to contribute to the recent research focusing specifically on private television in Greece.

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Icenogle, Marjorie L., Larry Joe Perdue, and Leslie W. Rue. "Strategic Planning in Nonprofit Private Clubs: Fact or Fiction." Hospitality Research Journal 18, no. 2 (February 1994): 137–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109634809401800210.

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Pylnev, Yurii A. "Legal Fiction in Insolvency Cases Under Roman Private Law." Ural Journal of Legal Research, no. 3 (2022): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.34076/2658_512x_2022_3_59.

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Kaiser, J. "BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $300 Million in Private Money for New Investigators." Science 319, no. 5869 (March 14, 2008): 1469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.319.5869.1469.

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King, Michael. "What makes a successful corporate investigator." Journal of Financial Crime 27, no. 3 (April 10, 2020): 701–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-02-2020-0019.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the attributes – skills, education and qualifications – required to be a contemporary corporate investigator. Design/methodology/approach To address heretofore unexplored areas in the literature, this study used data collected from semi-structured interviews with 33 corporate investigators in Australia. Findings This paper highlights the complexities that surround corporate investigations and identifies nine attributes critical for investigative success. The findings identify some commonalities with police–detective skills and suggest that the corporate investigator needs the skills of an accountant and a lawyer to complement these investigative skills. Originality/value Studies of private investigators are rare as such; therefore, this paper fills a gap in academic literature by examining the skills necessary to conduct private investigations of corporate and white-collar crime.

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Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage:Henry James in Recent Fiction." Journal of Modern Literature 30, no. 3 (June 2007): 70–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jml.2007.30.3.70.

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Roblin, Isabelle. "Nancy Drew Revisited: Female Private Eyes in Contemporary American Fiction." Sillages critiques, no. 6 (December 1, 2004): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.1456.

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ALLAMAND, CAROLE. "A Tooth for a Private Eye: James Ellroy's Detective Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 39, no. 3 (June 2006): 349–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00253.x.

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Greenwood, Kate, Carl H. Coleman, and Kathleen M. Boozang. "Toward Evidence-Based Conflicts of Interest Training for Physician-Investigators." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 40, no. 3 (2012): 500–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2012.00682.x.

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In recent years, the government, advocacy organizations, the press, and the public have pressured universities, academic medical centers, and physicianinvestigators to do more to ensure that their financial interests and relationships do not conflict with their duties to conduct high-quality research and protect the safety and welfare of clinical trial participants. A number of factors underlie the increased focus. First, private sector funding of clinical research has grown both in absolute terms and as a proportion of overall funding. In 2008, the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industries’ domestic research and development expenditures constituted approximately 60.9% of funding for biomedical research in the United States; the next largest funder, the National Institutes of Health, funded 27.9%. Private industry spent $58.6 billion on research in 2007, up from $40 billion in 2003, an increase of 25% after adjusting for inflation.

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Laboureyras, Emanuelle. "L’enquête dans le récit contemporain, une représentation esthétique du labyrinthe." Cahiers ERTA, no. 37 (March 22, 2024): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23538953ce.24.005.19419.

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Investigation in contemporary narrative : an aesthetic representation of the labyrinth Contemporary narrative features a number of investigative authors who are part of a dynamic of inquiry : investigations in archives, both genealogical and judicial, field research, testimony gathering, trial chronicles. The labyrinth motif not only blurs the lines of enquiry, demonstrating how difficult it is to grasp reality, but also renews the territories of fiction and non-fiction. In this article, we show how contemporary authors engaged in a quest for missing persons or the unveiling of a truth, use the labyrinth motif in their investigative narratives. The labyrinth motif expresses the complexity of the investigations carried out by the authors in their role as investigators. In this way, the labyrinth becomes a metaphor for the authors' creative work, in contact with past and present time.

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Eshed, Eli, and Daniel Galily. "The First Hebrew Detective, David Tidhar, as a Freemason." Open Journal for Studies in Philosophy 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2023): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsp.0702.02027e.

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This article is about David Tidhar. He is an important character in Israeli History, the Hebrew first private detective who had become the first hero of Hebrew detective fiction and historian who was also an important Mason and a historian of Masonry in the land of Israel. The main points in the article are: Introduction. David Tidhar as the first Hebrew private detective; David Tidhar as the first Hebrew detective in the British Mandatory Palestine Police; His character in Hebrew Detective fiction at the beginning of the 20th century; The villain from Corfu; David Tidhar as a member of a secret fraternities; Barkai Lodge of Freemasons in Israel; David Tidhar as a member of Barkai Masonic Lodge; Conclusion.

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Button, Mark. "Beyond the Public Gaze — The Exclusion of Private Investigators from the British Debate over Regulating Private Security." International Journal of the Sociology of Law 26, no. 1 (March 1998): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijsl.1997.0053.

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Ooms, Julie. "“A private holy spirit in small letters”." Renascence 73, no. 3 (2021): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence202173314.

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Scholars regularly read Sylvia Plath biographically, but few have focused on her religious beliefs and their manifestation in her work. This essay explores Plath’s ideas about religion, and about Christianity in particular, as they are articulated in college papers, in her journals, and in her fiction. It argues, finally, that Plath’s wrestling with Christian religious ideas is that of the kind of “cross-pressured” believer characterized by Charles Taylor; she is a humanist atheist tempted by belief.

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Mondejar, Hans Christian U., and John Mark R. Asio. "Human Resource Management Practices and Job Satisfaction: Basis for Development of a Teacher Retention Framework." International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research 3, no. 9 (September 12, 2022): 1630–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/ijmaber.03.09.04.

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The objective of this research paper is to examine the association between Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and teachers' Job Satisfaction (JS) of private academic institutions in Olongapo City, Philippines. The investigators used a descriptive-correlation research design among 170 conveniently chosen respondents. The study used an adopted and modified research instrument wherein the gathered data underwent descriptive and inferential analysis. The study revealed that private academic institutions practice recruitment and selection processes, evaluate employee performance, provide training and development, appropriate compensation, career planning opportunities, and employee safety, health, and welfare. Furthermore, respondents were satisfied with their supervisors, coworkers, working conditions, compensation and responsibilities; job itself, advancement, security, and recognition. Inferential analysis revealed that the association between HRM practices and job satisfaction is highly significant. The investigators used human resources management practices and job satisfaction to develop a teacher retention framework based on these results.

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Gottschalk, Petter. "Maturity levels for private internal investigations." International Journal of Police Science & Management 19, no. 4 (November 20, 2017): 285–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355717733139.

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The purpose of private internal investigations by fraud examiners is to reconstruct the past by identifying past events and sequences of events. In this article, work by fraud examiners is studied in terms of maturity; introduce a five-stage model for investigation maturity: chaos, mess, disclosure, clarification, and investment. Based on student term papers in a financial crime class, six investigation reports are allocated to levels in the maturity model. The average score for the investigation reports is a level 3 disclosure, where the investigation is problem-oriented and often limited by the mandate. Based on the low average score, this article discusses the privatization of law enforcement, secrecy of investigation reports, lack of disclosure to the police, competence of private investigators, and limits of the investigation mandate.

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Bal, P. Matthijs, Inge Brokerhof, and Edina Dóci. "How Does Fiction Inform Working Lives?" International Journal of Public Sociology and Sociotherapy 1, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpss.2021010101.

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This paper discusses the relationships between fiction and working lives by exploring the roles of empathy and sustainability in how people read and perceive fiction in relation to their own private and working lives. The paper problematizes some notions manifesting within these relationships by discussing how ideology infiltrates both the understanding of concepts themselves as well as how they relate to each other. Hence, it thereby discusses how the individual experience of fiction has an effect on behavior but is influenced by ideological beliefs about society which are largely implicit to the reader herself. It thereby explains why fiction does not always enhance empathy. Using the distinction between aesthetic and ethical good, the paper elucidates how fiction may sustain an ideological version of empathy, and thus sustaining contemporary practices in the workplace and the economic system. The paper finishes with an exploration of how fiction may enable a reader to become aware of ideology, thereby opening possibilities to achieve more viable forms of social sustainability.

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Peterson, Nadya L. "The Private “I” in the Works of Nina Berberova." Slavic Review 60, no. 3 (2001): 491–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2696812.

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This article aims to identify prevalent concerns and anxieties informing Berberova's works, whether designated as fiction, biography, fictionalized history, or autobiography; to observe what is hidden behind the public facade of the autobiographical self; and to determine how the fictional and the autobiographical are connected in the writer's narratives. Berberova's autobiography, as well as her fictional and biographical writings, provide a fertile ground for investigating the author's frame of reference from the point of view of her gender. A close look at the nature of autobiography, with its careful construction of a public self, offers insight into the way Berberova wants others to see her. Paying attention to the struggle for physical and spiritual survival, the focus of Berberova's writing in general, affords an understanding of what the author deems necessary in order to overcome the hardships of emigration, the challenges of failed relationships, and the hazards of being a woman writer. Berberova's connections with men and women in her life—described by herself, seen by others, reflected in her fiction—all point to a pivotal concern with the strengths and weaknesses of her own gender.

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Barbour, Stephanie. "Supporting Accountability for Sexual Violence in the Syria and Iraq Conflicts." Journal of International Criminal Justice 18, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 397–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqaa004.

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Abstract This article examines innovations in investigating sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through private investigations of international criminal and humanitarian law violations in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on the progress, challenges and lessons learned at the international level, a few notable initiatives have endeavoured to implement high-quality criminal investigations driven by local actors. The article first sets out the context in which private initiatives have moved to fill the gaps in the international response to crimes in Syria and Iraq through a shift to supporting national investigators engaged in evidence-gathering in their own countries and amid ongoing conflict. Next, the article explores efforts to build the capacity of national investigators to conduct safe and ethical evidence-gathering concerning sexual violence, often facing down socio-cultural barriers and other obstacles to effective investigations. Thirdly, the article examines the case-building strategy pursued by initiatives such as the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), from ensuring a focus on demonstrating leadership responsibility for crimes of sexual violence by the Syrian military and security apparatus and Islamic State to feeding cases into viable avenues for prosecution. This section explores some of the innovations, good practices and lessons learned in such initiatives in response to challenges arising in sexual offence investigation. Such issues include socio-cultural barriers to effective investigation of SGBV, the risk of creating SGBV silos, and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of national investigators. Finally, the article offers a prognosis for these efforts’ successful contribution to future accountability for conflict-related sexual violence in Syria and Iraq, and concludes with wider lessons for the role of private criminal investigations of this category of criminality and beyond.

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Pues, Anni. "A Grey Zone under the Spotlight—Illegal GPS Tracking by Private Investigators." Journal of Criminal Law 78, no. 1 (February 2014): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2014.78.1.889.

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Skinner, Robert E., and Paula L. Woods. "Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction." African American Review 31, no. 2 (1997): 336. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3042481.

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SCHULTZ, KATHERINE. "Private Practices: Girl Reading Fiction and Constructing Identity. Meredith Rogers Cherland." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 27, no. 3 (September 1996): 453–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aeq.1996.27.3.04x0364z.

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Margolin, Kim A., Koen van Besien, and David J. Peace. "An Introduction to Foundation and Industry-Sponsored Research: Practical and Ethical Considerations." Hematology 2007, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 498–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/asheducation-2007.1.498.

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Abstract Investigators face formidable challenges in securing adequate support for their research efforts. Federal subsidies for biomedical research have not expanded in the past several years, while applications to the National Institutes of Health for investigator-initiated studies have increased substantially. Faced with stiffening competition, investigators, particularly those at the outset of their careers, may consider alternative sources of funding and support. Philanthropic foundations, private donors, and commercial industry provide a diverse array of funding opportunities. Strategies to identify and solicit funding from these alternative sources are addressed herein. Emphasis is given to the development and support of investigator-initiated clinical research. Ethical considerations that frame investigators’ acceptance and utilization of research subsidies from for-profit entities, i.e., pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies, are reviewed. The importance of the protection of intellectual property and the preservation of academic integrity and autonomy, especially in the context of corporate sponsorship, also are highlighted.

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Zuberi, N. A. "Private Power Generation—Opportunities and Challenges." Pakistan Development Review 47, no. 4II (December 1, 2008): 1019–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v47i4iipp.1019-1027.

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POWER INDUSTRY DYNAMICS The concept of modern world is imperfect without electricity. The development of modern gadgets in past two decades has made human living as reflection of a science fiction movie. The fiction like living’s axis in fact is electricity and without electricity every thing comes to a grinding halt. Though this picture is portrait of the developed world, yet everyone would agree that wherever electricity has reached, it has transformed everything into power reliant. Whether it is Pakistan or any third world country, the industry; the commerce; the banking system; the methods of teaching in educational institutions; hospitals; control systems of civil aviation and civic traffic systems; and the domestic living, everything revolves around electricity. Whenever there is any break in electricity supply, output of every segment of society drops down to its lowest ebb. Many segments such as process industry and hospitals require highly reliable power supply systems. Truly, electricity is no more a luxury available to rich only; it has now become a basic need. However, scientists have not yet fully succeed in overcoming the challenges posed by the dynamics of electricity. First of all their failure to store electricity on commercial scale has made it necessary to keep generating electricity all the time. However, managing the generation quantum to meet the varying intra-day and inter-day power demand at places which are hundreds of miles apart require dedicated and sophisticated transmission and distribution infrastructure. The problem accentuated in countries like Pakistan where the generation capacity reduces in winter due to lower availability of its hydro power plants and lower availability of gas for thermal generation plants. The transmission cum distribution infrastructure as well as installation cum operations of power generating plants is very capital intensive. Hence it is very difficult for the governments and / or power utilities to develop the generation capacity and the transmission cum distribution network all by itself.

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Martynuska, Małgorzata. "Karin Slaughter’s Crime Novel "Blindsighted" as a Southern Forensic Thriller." Tematy i Konteksty 18, no. 13 (December 28, 2023): 412–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/tik.2023.26.

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The forensic thriller has emerged as a significant subgenre of crime fiction that depicts the work of medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists, and anthropologists who analyze scientific evidence. Forensic investigators do not engage directly in pursuing the criminal; instead, they interpret the physical evidence collected from the victim's body and the crime scene. The popularity of forensic fiction, film, and TV series has created the general assumption that criminalistics has become a routine police procedure. This article presents Karin Slaughter's novel Blindsighted as an example of the Southern forensic thriller. The American writer Karin Slaughter is the author of crime stories and thrillers set in the American South. Her Grant County series consists of six crime novels, beginning with Blindsighted and followed by Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, and Beyond Reach. The essay introduces the main qualities of a forensic thriller and highlights the novel's generic characteristics. Then, Blindsighted is analyzed within the paradigm of Southern regional literature, with its distinctive qualities and religious imagery.

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Flint, Christopher. "Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 113, no. 2 (March 1998): 212–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463361.

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An enormously popular narrative device, speaking objects were used frequently in eighteenth-century British fiction to express authorial concerns about the circulation of books in the public sphere. Relating the speaking object to the author's status in a print culture, works featuring such narrators characteristically align authorship, commodification, and national acculturation. The objects celebrate their capacity to exploit both private and public systems of circulation, such as libraries, banks, booksellers' shops, highways, and taverns. Linking storytelling to commodities and capital, they convey an implicit theory of culture in which literary dissemination, economic exchange, and public use appear homologous. But as object narratives dramatize, such circulation estranges modern authors from their work. Far from mediating between private and public experience or synthesizing national and cosmopolitan values, these narratives record the indiscriminate consumption that characterizes the public sphere in a print culture.

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Zeng, Gang. "Data Handling of Digital Forensics Cloud Computing." Advanced Materials Research 756-759 (September 2013): 1739–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.756-759.1739.

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With development of network and digital devices, traditional digital forensics tools show their drawbacks, and investigators need new forensics tools to deal with enormous digital evidences. Therefore, this paper introduces digital forensics and cloud computing, then lists the advantages of private forensics cloud computing, proposes a model of Data Handling of Digital Forensics Cloud Computing.

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Solehuddin, Solehuddin. "Juridical Review Of The Authority Of Civil Servant Investigators In Conducting Forced Searches Of Violators Of Local Regulations Based On The Provisions Of Indonesian Laws And Regulations." Widya Yuridika 7, no. 1 (April 3, 2024): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.31328/wy.v7i1.4662.

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In this study the author discusses one of the problems regarding the authority of civil servant investigators (PPNS) in carrying out forced searches based on the provisions of laws and regulations in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the authority of civil servant investigators (PPNS) in conducting forced searches based on the provisions of laws and regulations in Indonesia and to determine and analyze civil servant investigators (PPNS) can make forced searches of perpetrators suspected of committing criminal violations of local regulations. The research method uses normative legal research, so the research approach taken is a statute approach, conceptual approach, and case approach. The results of this study are the first, the authority of civil servant investigators (PPNS) according to Indonesian legislation is regulated in the provisions of Law No. 8 of 1981 concerning Criminal Procedure Law (KUHAP) Government Regulation No. 43 of 2012 concerning Procedures for Implementing Coordination, Supervision, and Technical Guidance of Special Police, Civil Servant Investigators, and forms of Private Security, Regulation of the Chief of the Indonesian National Police Number 14 of 2012 concerning Management of Criminal Investigations, Regulation of the Chief of the Indonesian National Police Number 6 of 2010 concerning Investigation Management by Civil Servant Investigators. Secondly, the provisions of the above laws and regulations that in the event of a criminal offense in the region, civil servant investigators (PPNS) can search the perpetrator of the offense, but still the PPNS authority must be expressly regulated in the provisions of regional regulations because however PPNS in the regions must be subject to Regional Regulations that regulate their authority.

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