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McCrie, R. (2019). American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_7-1

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