Doing Security

Critical Reflections and an Agenda for Change

By: Mark Button

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Hardcover | 23 October 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Security has become a salient issue for governments, organizations and the general public. Yet despite this growing concern, the provision of security is often substandard. This book exposes some of the common failures in security using case studies, including one of the greatest security breaches of recent times - 9/11. It highlights the generally low opinion many offenders have of security systems and exposes the poor standards of many security officers and managers. It also lays bare the poor regulation, limited professional infra-structure and widespread security inequity in society that contributes to poor security.

Doing Security brings together the latest theoretical thinking, research and best practice globally to provide radical proposals to enhance the effectiveness of security in society at national and organizational levels. It sets out a model for delivering security in organizations that can offer new competitive advantages based upon a reconfiguration of security management as Security Risk Management. It also sets out a policy agenda at national level for more effective regulation of the security profession, arguing for the creation of Security Unions, based on the model of credit unions. This study is essential reading for all those concerned with security and risk management, and crime prevention.

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'...It's welcome to have this book, brimming with ideas by someone with academic rigour...I have to stress what a wide-ranging, assured and thought-provoking read this is for the UK (and indeed Irish and other English-speaking) security person...this is a first stop for picking up ideas and quotes. There aren't many published books out there that the security manager ought to have on his shelf...One of them is Prof Martin Gill's Handbook of Security...Doing Security is another...That's the stature of this.' Professional Security

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List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables and Boxes	p. ix
Series Editor's Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Mapping Security
Private Security, Nodal Governance and the Security System	p. 3
Security Undone
Security Failure and the Security Myth	p. 27
Understanding the Malefactors	p. 54
The Human Element of the Security System	p. 75
The Foundations of Security	p. 95
Doing Security
Creating a Model Holistic Security System	p. 123
Making it Never Happen	p. 143
Making the Last Resort Count	p. 165
Rebuilding the Foundations of Security	p. 190
Concluding Comments
Concluding Comments and a Model for Doing Security	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 247
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