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Risk Balance and Security
- Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot - University of Calgary, Canada
- Leslie W. Kennedy - Rutgers University, USA
August 2007 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In confronting risk, individuals and all agencies cannot simply respond with endless resources in mitigating the damage that hazards engender—they have to establish a balance. Risk Balance and Security combines the conceptual underpinnings of risk assessment and management at both the individual and agency level with a clear analysis of how these relate to challenges faced in responding to crime, terrorism, public health threats, and environmental disasters. With a new understanding of how decisions are made about threats and hazards, and how this understanding may be applied in our preparedness, prevention, and response strategies, we will be able to better conceptualize our task for enhancing security in the future.
Key Features
This is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses such as Disaster Research, Security, Police Studies, Emergency Planning, and Crime and Public Policy in the departments of criminology, criminal justice, political science, and public health.
Key Features
- Links theoretical ideas with real world examples: Clear discussions are presented of how risk is constructed in modern society and why that is important in our efforts to develop strategies to enhance security.
- Provides an interdisciplinary treatment of risk: To capture the realities facing public security today, ideas are drawn from a number of different disciplines.
- Illustrates real applications of solutions to security problems: Students are shown how agencies are dealing with specific threats to security.
- Compares individual-level and institutional-level assessments of risk and security: These divergences enable readers to appreciate the complexities of establishing security.
This is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses such as Disaster Research, Security, Police Studies, Emergency Planning, and Crime and Public Policy in the departments of criminology, criminal justice, political science, and public health.
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
November 9, 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
