Introduction to Security
Subtitle: Fifth Edition
By: By Robert J. Fisher and Gion Green.
Contributors: Green, Gion.
Edition: 5th Edition
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: January 1, 1992
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780750691918
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Private security services.; Private security services -- Management.; Industries -- Security measures.; Retail trade -- Security measures.
Description: This fifth edition of introduction to Security upholds the book's tradition of informing readers with contemporary security issues from security equipment and procedures to management and loss prevention theory. This new edition has been updated with the most current information available in the constantly-changing security field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Green's names appeared first on earlier edition.
Table of contents: title: Origins and development of security -- Career opportunities in loss prevention -- Security education, training, certification, and regulation -- Defining security's role -- The proprietary security organization -- Security and the law -- Risk analysis and the security survey -- The outer defenses: building and perimeter protection -- Interior and exterior security concerns -- The inner defenses: intrusion and access control -- Fire protection, safety, and emergency planning -- Internal theft controls -- Personnel policies for internal security -- Insurance -- Retail security -- Cargo security -- Computer security -- Specific security threats -- Security: its problems, its future