The handbook of security
By: edited by Martin Gill, Professor of Criminology and Director of Perpetuity Research, UK
Edition: 2nd edition.
Series: Palgrave handbooks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 9781137323279
Subjects: Private security services; Security systems; Corporations; Security measures; Crime prevention; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Description: "The fully 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 explores a range of issues and debates that impact our understanding of how security is provided.Consisting of over forty chapters, the volume considers an array of topics such as workplace crime, terrorism, organized crime and counterfeiting, and applies discussions of crime and security to a variety of sectors including retail, finance, and tourism. The handbook includes a new section on approaches to researching security through ethnography, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. In later sections, it analyses security products and services such as guards, alarms and CCTV, as well as the management of security where chapters focus on crisis management, partnerships and regulation. The final section critiques security using various approaches including critical security studies, professionalization and ethics.Informed by disciplines including environmental science, criminology, politics and economics, the Handbook of Security is essential reading for all those engaged with the security world"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.