Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Security Science : The Theory and Practice of Security - David Brooks
eTextbook alternate format product

Instant online reading.
Go digital and save!

Security Science

The Theory and Practice of Security

By: David Brooks, Clifton Smith

Hardcover | 14 January 2013 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance
Elsevier

Elsevier

Advancing human progress together

Ends 30/04/26

View Promotion >

Hardcover

RRP $109.95

$95.75

13%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $23.94 with

 or 
In Stock and Ships in 1-2 business days

Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based on robust underlying theories, principles, models or frameworks. Demonstrating the relationships and underlying concepts, they present an approach to each core security function within the context of both organizational security and homeland security. The book is unique in its application of the scientific method to the increasingly challenging tasks of preventing crime and foiling terrorist attacks. Incorporating the latest security theories and principles, it considers security from both a national and corporate perspective, applied at a strategic and tactical level. It provides a rational basis for complex decisions and begins the process of defining the emerging discipline of security science.

  • A fresh and provocative approach to the key facets of security
  • Presentation of theories and models for a reasoned approach to decision making
  • Strategic and tactical support for corporate leaders handling security challenges
  • Methodologies for protecting national assets in government and private sectors
  • Exploration of security's emerging body of knowledge across domains
Industry Reviews
"Two Australian academics...examine what evidence based information is available. The book, intended as a text, is likely to appeal to English-reading audiences outside of the US. Security practitioners here likely will find valuable insights applicable to security operations for use abroad... Smith and Brooks deliver an interesting read." --Security Letter, April 2014 "Security practitioners who have wanted a text that links security management principles with the proven concepts of the scientific method need look no further...This text is critical to security managers at any level who wish to enhance their role in their organization." --SecurityManagement.com, February 2014 "Proclaiming to establish the knowledge domain of security on a scientific and professional foundation, Smith...and Brooks...develop a theoretical construct for understanding the concept and management of security and the management of security risk that is based on a hierarchy of concepts and principles associated with asset protection and the processes to achieve asset protection." --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

You Can Find This Book In

Non-FictionEngineering & TechnologyTechnology in GeneralPolitics & GovernmentInternational RelationsCentral GovernmentPolitical ActivismTerrorism

More in Technology in General

The Design of Everyday Things : Revised and Expanded Edition - Don Norman

The Design of Everyday Things

Revised and Expanded Edition

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$22.75

24%
OFF
Technologies for Children : 3rd Edition - Marilyn Fleer

Technologies for Children

3rd Edition

Paperback

RRP $92.95

$78.75

15%
OFF
Mathematics for Technicians : 7th Edition - Blair Alldis

Mathematics for Technicians

7th Edition

Not Supplied By Publisher

RRP $94.95

$92.75

Source Code : My Beginnings - Bill Gates

Source Code

My Beginnings

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Burn Book - Kara Swisher

Burn Book

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Thing Explainer : Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Randall Munroe

Thing Explainer

Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Modern Engineering Mathematics : 6th Edition - Glyn James

Modern Engineering Mathematics

6th Edition

Paperback

RRP $145.90

$117.75

19%
OFF
Once Upon a Time in Space - James Bluemel

Once Upon a Time in Space

Hardcover

RRP $65.00

$48.99

25%
OFF
First Knowledges Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity - Ian J McNiven

First Knowledges Innovation

Knowledge and Ingenuity

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Engineering Mechanics - Val Ivanoff

Engineering Mechanics

Not Supplied By Publisher

RRP $115.95

$109.75

This product is categorised by