21st Century Security and CPTED
Subtitle: Designing for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Crime Prevention
Publisher: AUERBACH; CRC Press
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781420068078
Subjects: Social & Legal Aspects of Computing; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Commerce; Business & Economics / Commerce; Civil; Forensic Science
Description: Offering one important answer to current concerns with violence and terrorism, this is the only book to examine current trends in the developing field of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). It includes contributions from the world's top CPTED practitioners. Highly relevant to critical infrastructure protection, the book addresses application of CPTED to high-security environments, as well as public and private sector buildings. Facilitating understanding across fields, it explains the architecture process to security directors, while explaining the security design process to architects. It serves as a practical guide for architects, security directors, law enforcement, Homeland Security professionals, building and property managers, as well as criminal justice, architecture, and security students.