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The Handbook of Security

  • Martin Gill
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Introducing The Handbook of Security

    1. Introducing The Handbook of Security
      Martin Gill
      Pages 1-17

  3. Disciplines and Security

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. The History of Private Security and Its Impact on the Modern Security Sector
      Bruce George, Simon Kimber
      Pages 21-40
    3. Environmental Studies and the Influence of Culture: Security Consulting Experiences in Korea, Japan and Malaysia
      Richard H. Schneider
      Pages 41-64
    4. What Have Criminologists Done for Us Lately?
      Ken Pease, Graham Farrell
      Pages 65-88
    5. Politics, Economics and Security
      Adam White
      Pages 89-106
    6. Engineering Principles in the Protection of Assets
      David Brooks, Clifton L. Smith
      Pages 107-132
    7. Design and Security
      Paul Ekblom
      Pages 133-156

  4. Offences

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 157-157
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    2. From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Terrorism: History, Current Trends and Future Prospects
      Kumar Ramakrishna
      Pages 159-181
    3. The Violent Vortex: Appraising Risk from Workers Who Kill On-the-Job
      Seungmug Zech Lee, Robert McCrie
      Pages 182-205
    4. The Extent, Nature and Responses to Workplace Violence Globally: Issues and Findings
      Amy L. Stutzenberger, Bonnie S. Fisher
      Pages 206-233
    5. Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships
      Robert Beckman, Monique Page
      Pages 234-255
    6. Fighting Organized Crime and the Threats to Business
      Michael Levi
      Pages 256-278
    7. Commercial Burglary
      R. I. Mawby
      Pages 279-301
    8. Identity Theft
      Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis
      Pages 302-320
    9. Cybercrime and Establishing a Secure Cyberworld
      Lennon Y. C. Chang, Peter Grabosky
      Pages 321-339
    10. Counterfeiting: The Challenges for Governments, Companies and Consumers
      Virginie De Barnier
      Pages 340-358

  5. Crime and Security in Sectors

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 359-359
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    2. Understanding Loss in the Retail Sector
      Adrian Beck
      Pages 361-382
    3. Crime and Disorder, Security and the Tourism Industry
      R. I. Mawby
      Pages 383-403
    4. Food Security
      Hope Johnson, Reece Walters
      Pages 404-426
    5. Criminal Activity in the Financial Sector
      Mark Button, Martin Tunley
      Pages 427-449

  6. Researching Security

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 451-451
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    2. Influences of Investigations and Scholarly Studies on the Evolution of American Private Policing: Healthy Distrust, Watchful Eyes
      James D. Calder
      Pages 453-486
    3. Securing the Knowledge
      Paul Ekblom
      Pages 487-515
    4. A View from the Street: Active Offenders, the Life-course, Technology and Implications for Security
      Richard K. Moule Jr
      Pages 516-545
    5. The Ethnographic Approach and Security: The Case of Airports
      Alan Avi Kirschenbaum
      Pages 546-565
    6. Crime Mapping as a Tool for Security and Crime Prevention
      Kate Bowers, Shane D. Johnson
      Pages 566-587
    7. Improving the Evidence Base in Security: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
      Matthew Manning
      Pages 588-608
    8. Developing, Improving and Evaluating Loss Prevention Initiatives Using Randomized Controlled Trials
      Read Hayes, Kyle Grottini
      Pages 609-631

  7. Security Products and Services

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 633-633
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    2. Signing Security
      Nick Tilley
      Pages 635-655
    3. Security Technology in the Protection of Assets
      Clifton L. Smith
      Pages 656-682
    4. Intrusion Detection Systems in the Protection of Assets
      David Brooks
      Pages 683-704
    5. CCTV: Reflections on Its Use, Abuse and Effectiveness
      Emmeline Taylor, Martin Gill
      Pages 705-726
    6. The Security Officer
      Mahesh K. Nalla, Alison Wakefield
      Pages 727-746
    7. Private Military and Security Companies: Armed, Global, Regulated and Professional?
      Kateri Carmola
      Pages 747-766

  8. Security and Its Management

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 767-767
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    2. The Role of Partnerships in Security Management
      Tim Prenzler, Rick Sarre
      Pages 769-790
    3. Security and Risk Management
      Joshua Bamfield
      Pages 791-812
    4. Disaster and Crisis Management
      Dominic Elliott
      Pages 813-836
    5. Managing Intelligence and Responding to Emerging Threats: The Case of Biosecurity
      Patrick F. Walsh
      Pages 837-856
    6. Regulation
      Tim Prenzler, Rick Sarre
      Pages 857-878

  9. Critiquing Security

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 879-879
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    2. Critiques of Corporate Security: Cost, Camouflage and Creep
      Randy K. Lippert, Kevin Walby
      Pages 881-899
    3. Securitization, Infopolitics and the Suppression of Liberty
      John Edward Deukmedjian
      Pages 900-918
    4. Where Next for the Professionalization of Security?
      Alison Wakefield
      Pages 919-935
    5. Trading in Security: Issues in the Commodification of Public Security
      Julie Ayling
      Pages 936-958

About this book

Introduction

The substantially revised second edition of the Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date. Including contributions from some of the world's leading scholars it critiques the way security is provided and managed.

Keywords

Security crime prevention crime reduction offences at work risk management crisis management critical security studies workplace crime crime crime mapping criminology prevention terrorism work

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