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Risk Balance and Security
- Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot - University of Calgary, Canada
- Leslie W. Kennedy - Rutgers University, USA
October 2007 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book is unique in that an attempt has been made to capture the interdisciplinary realities facing public security today, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the security decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Centrality of Security
Chapter Two: Values and Choices in Constructing Security
Chapter Three: Crime and Security
Chapter Four: Modern Terrorism
Chapter Five: Landscapes of Security: Health and the Environment
Chapter Six: The Stages of Risk Balance and Security
Chapter Seven: Concluding Thoughts
Note to Chapter 7
Index
About the Authors
An excellent summary of theory and concepts
Department Business Studies, Regent's University
December 8, 2015
Good book for understanding security and associated risk in a broader sense
Department of Computing, Dundalk Institute of Technology
December 4, 2013
This book will be used by my phd students who research risk. It is well written. The authors are very well informed and write lucidly. A must for all beginners and adanced students of risk management.
Brunel Business School, Brunel University
May 10, 2012
A useful text, applies risk in a variety of settings. Explains the connection between risk and security in contemporary society
Sociology, university of bradford
October 12, 2011
A very useful text for Security and Risk Management students.
Department of Criminology, University of Leicester
November 18, 2010
A useful book for the event management course, but not as specific to this field as I would have liked. Some sections of the book were quite in depth and offered some insightful information with particular emphasis on the terrorist threat. Placed on the supplemental list.
Business Department, Staffordshire University
August 5, 2010
Hopefully this book will help my students to understand the relevance of risk in contemporary CJ
Natural and Social Sciences, Gloucestershire University
April 20, 2010
