Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot & Leslie W. Kennedy 
Risk Balance and Security [EPUB ebook] 

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

• 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.

Intended Audience

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.

قائمة المحتويات

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: The Centrality of Security

Security Matters

Risk Positions

Approaching Security

Modelling Security

Studying Security from Many Perspectives

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter Two: Values and Choices in Constructing Security

The Values of Security

The Invention of Risk Society

The Context of Risk Society

Applying Risk Society to Risk Balance

Culture and Messages About Security

Judging Hazards, Threats, and Risks

Experts

Routines, Experts, and Trust

Types of Resources

Security From What?

Security for Whom?

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter Three: Crime and Security

How Much Crime and How Can It Be Addressed

Policing and Crime Risk

Protecting the Public: Community Policing and Intelligence-Led Policing

Who Polices Whom?

Security Against Crime

Profiling Offenders

Profiling Victims

Assessing Crime Information

Profiling Routines, Spaces, and Places

Preventing Crime?

Crime Events and Risk Balance

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter Four: Modern Terrorism

Terrorism and Security

Who Are the Terrorists and What Threat Do They Pose?

Globalization

Who ‘We’ Are

Intelligence: Information and Knowledge

‘We Have Some Planes…’

Dealing With Vulnerability

Identification of Vulnerability and Vulnerability-Producting Mechanisms

Raising Awareness of Vulnerabiity

Accurate Information

Readiness and Response

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter Five: Landscapes of Security: Health and the Environment

The Physical Landscape: Health

In Sickness and in Health

Jurisdiction and Spillover Effects

Brakes and Accelerators in the Local and Global Health Environments

Terrorist Events as Health Events

Summary

The Physical Landscape: The Environment

Defining Environmental Security

Power and Knowledge

The Blurry Boundaries Between Natural, Man-Made, and Other Disasters

The Evolution of Disaster

The Evolution of Hurricane Katrina

The Mitigation Stage

The Preparedness Stage

The Response Stage

The Recovery Stage

The Complications of Hurricane Katrina

Vulnerable Risk Positions

Communication Breakdowns

Failed Leadership

Summary

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter Six: The Stages of Risk Balance and Security

Preparedness and Readiness

Insurance

Crisis Drills and Table Top Exercises: Imagining Dire Consequences

Cross-Agency Cooperation

Response

First Responders and Victims

Leadership in Response

The Media and Response Coordination

Recovery and Prevention

Litigation

Goverment Compensation

Returning to Normal: Re-Establishing Routines

Conclusion

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter Seven: Concluding Thoughts

Becoming Secure: What Have We Learned?

Establishing Security

Practical Steps to Security

Principle 1. Choise

Principle 2. Decision-Making

Principle 3. Cooperation

Principle 4. Planning

Principle 5. Institutional Learning

Principle 6. Communication

Concluding Thoughts

Note to Chapter 7

References

Suggested Readings

Index

About the Authors

عن المؤلف

Leslie W. Kennedy is currently University Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security. He was the Dean of SCJ from 1998 to 2007.  In his most recent research, he has focused on crime mapping and the development of risk terrain modeling for use by police in preventing crime.  In addition to publishing numerous books on risk and crime, his research has appeared in Criminology, Justice Quarterly, American Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.