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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807175803321

Autore

Van Brunschot Erin Gibbs

Titolo

Risk balance & security / / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Leslie W. Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, c2008

ISBN

1-4522-3833-2

1-322-30718-0

1-4129-4069-9

1-4522-2299-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 239 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

KennedyLeslie W

Disciplina

363.10973

Soggetti

Emergency management - United States

Crime prevention - United States

Terrorism - United States - Prevention

Risk - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 - The Centrality of Security; 2 - Values and Choices in Constructing Security; 3 - Crime and Security; 4 - Modern Terrorism; 5 - Landscapes of Security; 6 - The Stages of Risk Balance and Security; 7 - Concluding Thoughts; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Van Brunschot and Kennedy capture the interdisciplinary realities facing public security today, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the secruity decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.