Risk balance & security / / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Leslie W. Kennedy
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| Autore: |
Van Brunschot Erin Gibbs
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| Titolo: |
Risk balance & security / / Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Leslie W. Kennedy
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| Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 239 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 363.10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Emergency management - United States |
| Crime prevention - United States | |
| Terrorism - United States - Prevention | |
| Risk - Sociological aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
KennedyLeslie W
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| 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Risk balance and security |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risk balance & security |
| ISBN: | 1-4522-3833-2 |
| 1-322-30718-0 | |
| 1-4129-4069-9 | |
| 1-4522-2299-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807175803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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