Definition
Measures to suggest, establish, and implement for public safety in non-private locations.
Introduction
Public safety is highly prioritized in political agendas because the sentiment of security affects public opinion. Especially after the 9/11 terrorist attack, much emphasis has been placed by public authorities on recommending, planning, and implementing security and safety countermeasures in order to protect the public.
Research has shown that, over the last two decades, private interests and security in public spaces have changed public spaces to regulated places of consumption (Low and Smith 2006). Public social life increasingly falls within privately controlled spaces policed by security officers operating not in the public interest, but in the interests of their employers or corporate clients. Security in public spaces is thus connected with formal social control, projected mainly by manned security, such as security guards and other personnel and security devices,...
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Triantafyllou, S. (2020). Protection and Security in Public Spaces. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_225-1
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