Private Security Today
by Frank Schmalleger, Larry J. Siegel, Carter F. Smith
1st Edition
Publisher: Pearson
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Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780133377156 |
| eText ISBN | 9780134252155 |
| Publisher | Pearson |
| Publishing Year | 2016 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 384 |
Private Security Today, 1st Edition, serves as an introductory textbook for students preparing for careers in the security field. The volume establishes the operational, legal, and organizational foundations that guide modern private protection practices.
Coverage introduces theoretical crime prevention concepts, security administration, and systematic risk assessment methods. It also outlines physical safeguards and investigative approaches used across specialized settings, including critical infrastructure.
Intended for introductory courses in security and private security, the text incorporates international viewpoints alongside domestic practices. The presentation prompts readers to weigh societal safety against individual liberties, examining issues chosen through recommendations from students, practitioners, and faculty.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Origins and Foundations of Security
- • Introduction
- • The History of Security
- • Security in European History
- • Security in North America
- • Spotlight Allan Pinkerton
- • Security Today
- • Defining Security
- • The Need for Security
- • Security Professionals
- • Academic Recognition
- • Security Careers
- • The Role of Security
- • Private Security and Public Space
- • Private Security and Law Enforcement
- • Agency Cooperation
- • Overcoming Obstacles to Cooperation
- • The Effect of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- • Volunteers in Security
- • Neighborhood Watch
- • Stand Your Ground
- • Spotlight Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman
- • Challenges in the Security Field
- • Professional Organizations
- • Summary
Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Security
- • Introduction
- • Why Do People Commit Crime?
- • Focus on the Individual
- • It’s a Rational Choice
- • It’s in Your Makeup
- • It’s in Your Mind
- • It’s a Lack of Self-Control
- • Social Influences
- • It’s the Environment
- • It is How You Are Raised
- • Learning View
- • Control View
- • Multiple Causes/Multiple Crimes
- • The Crime Triangle
- • Controlling People
- • General Deterrence
- • Specific Deterrence
- • Controlling Places
- • Situational Crime Prevention
- • Security in Practice Communities Feel Safer with Private Security
- • Defensible Space
- • Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
- • Displacement and Diffusion
- • Diffusion
- • Broken Windows Theory
- • Game Theory
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 3: Security Administration and Management
- • Introduction
- • The Business of Security
- • Security Programs: Proprietary versus Contractual
- • Spotlight What Security Executives Should Know about Ethics
- • Business Principles
- • Ethics
- • Explaining Ethics
- • Natural Law
- • Ethical Theory
- • Religious Principles
- • Legal Requirements
- • Ethical Practice
- • Ethical Systems
- • Ethics and Security
- • Security in Practice Insider Threats
- • Administrator or Manager
- • Ethics of the Employees
- • Ethics of Leadership
- • Competitive Advantages
- • Spotlight ACTION: Decision-Making Model—Raytheon
- • Ethical Decision Making
- • Ethics and the Use of Force
- • Ethical Hiring Practices
- • The Security Profession
- • Security Professionalism
- • Security Leadership
- • Security Management Issues
- • Planning and Decision Making
- • Labor Relations
- • Financial Management
- • Change Management
- • Security Programs in the Organization
- • Motivation and Management Theories
- • Security Administration and Management Challenges
- • Demographics
- • Globalization
- • Cultural Awareness
- • Professional Certification
- • G4S Custom Protection Officer (CPO)
- • Future Security Firms
- • Spotlight Security Franchising
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 4: Legal Aspects, Liability, and Regulation
- • Introduction
- • Security Exercise
- • Licensing and Professional Standards
- • Spotlight Private Officer International Helps Craft Security Laws
- • Legal Foundations of Security Law
- • Constitutional Law
- • Bill of Rights
- • Case Law (Judicial Decisions)
- • Laws of Arrest
- • Confession/Admission
- • Detention
- • Interrogation
- • Rights of Accused Persons
- • Security in Practice Training Requirements in Private Security
- • Search and Seizure
- • Statutory Criminal Law
- • Administrative Law
- • Agency Relationship
- • Employment Law
- • Strikes
- • Workers’ Compensation
- • Hiring
- • Spotlight Security and Service Animals
- • Liability Insurance
- • Sexual Harassment
- • Civil Law
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 5: Understanding, Analyzing, and Managing Risk
- • Introduction
- • Risk
- • Risk Assessment
- • Determining Risk
- • Security Exercise
- • Security Surveys
- • Spotlight Home Security Survey
- • An Ongoing Process
- • Diagram the Location
- • Cost Effectiveness
- • Spotlight Security Vulnerability Self-Assessment
- • Types of Risk
- • Sources of Risk
- • The Process of Risk Management
- • The Cycle of Risk Management
- • Risk Management Activities
- • Risk Management Programs
- • Risk Management Applications
- • Risk Management Principles
- • Organizational Risk
- • Reducing Risk
- • Steps to Optimal Risk Reduction Strategies
- • Measuring Effectiveness
- • Spotlight Managing Risk on Campus
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 6: Physical Security
- • Introduction
- • Guiding Principles
- • Physical Security
- • Designing the Security System
- • Labeling the Threat
- • Ranking the Threat
- • Protecting against the Threat
- • Perimeter Security
- • Access Barriers
- • Structural Barriers
- • Fences
- • Gates
- • Safes and Vaults
- • Locks
- • Mechanical Locks
- • Lock Picking
- • Master Keying
- • Electromagnetic Locks
- • Electrified Locking Mechanisms
- • Motion Sensors
- • Access and Entry Control
- • Biometrics
- • Security Lighting
- • Emergency Lighting
- • Security Forces
- • Security Personnel and the Use of Force
- • Dogs in Support of Security
- • Proper Use of Security Support Dogs
- • Use of Force with Security Support Dogs
- • Video Surveillance Systems
- • Legal Issues
- • The Future of Surveillance Systems
- • Layered Security
- • Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
- • Fire Safety
- • National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)
- • Fire Detectors
- • Fire Extinguishers
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 7: Institutional and Workplace Security
- • Introduction
- • Institutional and Facilities Security
- • Airport Security
- • Amusement Parks
- • Banking and Financial Institutions
- • Chemical Security
- • Convenience Stores
- • Correctional Facilities (Private)
- • Food Service Organizations
- • Government Buildings
- • Health Care Industry
- • Hospitality and Lodging (Hotels and Motels)
- • Maritime/Port Security
- • Medical and Legal Marijuana Distributions
- • Movie Theaters
- • Museums
- • Retail Complex Security (Mall, Shopping Center, General Retail Security)
- • Schools and Campuses
- • Sporting Events and Arenas
- • Security Exercise
- • The Nature of Workplace Violence
- • Types of Workplace Violence
- • Indicators of Potential for Workplace Violence
- • Domestic Violence in the Workplace
- • Active Shooter Situations
- • The Workplace Violator
- • Controlling Workplace Violence
- • Planning for Prevention
- • Prevention Strategies
- • Employee Responsibilities
- • Security in Practice Securing the Olympics
- • Emerging Forms of Institutional and Workplace Security
- • Petroleum Manufacturing and Distribution
- • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Distribution
- • Cruise Ships
- • Energy Manufacturing and Distribution Sector
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 8: Security Investigations and Prosecution
- • Introduction
- • Private versus Public Investigators
- • Qualifications of Private Investigators
- • Spotlight Basic Principles for Investigators
- • The Investigation Process and the Investigative Mind-Set
- • Conducting Effective Investigations
- • Criminal Investigations
- • White-Collar Crimes
- • Spotlight Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- • Fraud Investigations
- • Product Counterfeiting
- • Noncriminal Investigations
- • Due Diligence Investigations
- • Accidents
- • Theft of Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage
- • Interviewing and Interrogating
- • Spotlight Differences between Interviews and Interrogations
- • Interview Types
- • Nonverbal Communication
- • Listening Skills
- • Taking Notes
- • Surveillance
- • Surveillance Methods
- • Surveillance Types
- • Spotlight Ten Tips and Suggestions for Covert Operators
- • Undercover Operations
- • Information and Intelligence
- • Polygraph Examinations and Behavioral Analysis Interviews
- • Sources and Other Information Resources
- • Managing Human Sources
- • Report Writing
- • Case Management for the Investigator
- • Bringing the Case to Court
- • Depositions
- • Discovery
- • Court Testimony
- • Direct Examination
- • Cross-Examination
- • Spotlight Courtroom Testimony
- • Expert Testimony
- • Professional Certifications for Investigators
- • Spotlight ASIS Professional Certified Investigator
- • Networking and Liaison
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 9: Retail Security and Loss Prevention
- • Introduction
- • Retail Security, Loss Prevention, and Asset Protection
- • Goals of Retail Security and Loss Prevention Professionals
- • Shrinkage
- • Shoplifting
- • Security Exercise
- • Types of Products Targeted for Theft
- • Preventing Shoplifting
- • Spotlight Probable Cause Steps
- • Shoplifter Identification: Profiling
- • Profiling Problems
- • Changing Behavior
- • Spotlight Credentialing Loss Prevention Professionals
- • Organized Retail Crime
- • Spotlight Gate Cutters Organized Retail Crime Group
- • Combating Organized Retail Crime
- • Security in Practice Mall Security
- • Flash Mobs
- • Employee Theft/Theft from Within
- • Motivations
- • Conspiracies with Outsiders
- • Preventing Employee Theft
- • New Loss Prevention
- • Technology
- • Spotlight LERPnet2.0 - The Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network
- • Video Surveillance
- • Spotlight Facial Recognition is a Game-Changer for Retailers
- • Emerging Forms of Theft
- • Accident Prevention
- • Vandalism, Burglary, and Robbery
- • Vandalism
- • Burglary
- • Robbery
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 10: Homeland Security and the Terrorism Threat
- • Introduction
- • Defining Homeland Security
- • The Goals of Homeland Security
- • Practicing Homeland Security
- • Private Homeland Security
- • Private/Public Cooperation
- • International Homeland Security
- • United Kingdom
- • France
- • Israel
- • Russia
- • Canada
- • The Threat of Terrorism
- • Homegrown Violent Extremists
- • Extremism
- • Spotlight Nidal Hasan
- • Religious Extremism
- • Spotlight Best Terminology for Describing the Terrorist Threat
- • Becoming an Extremist
- • Spotlight Sovereign Citizens
- • Domestic Terrorists
- • Spotlight Wolf Packs
- • Terrorist Activity in the United States
- • Spotlight Terrorism in Texas
- • Terrorists and Crime
- • Terrorism outside the United States
- • The Islamic State (IS)
- • Boko Haram
- • Spotlight Islamic State in Europe
- • Al-Shabaab
- • Terrorist Planning and Preparation
- • Terrorist Motivation
- • Domestic Terrorism and Law Enforcement
- • Bombings and Bomb Threats
- • Fires, Bombs, and Explosive Devices
- • Spotlight INTERCON Bomb Threat Plan
- • Countering Terrorism with Private Security
- • Executive and Protection Services
- • Assessing the Threat of Terrorism
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 11: Emergency Practices and Crisis/Disaster Management
- • Introduction
- • History of Emergency, Crisis, and Disaster Management
- • Supporting Emergency Management Legislation
- • Emergency, Crisis, or Disaster Management?
- • Emergencies
- • Crisis
- • Disaster
- • The Effect of Emergency, Crisis, or Disaster Management on Security
- • Maintaining Partnerships
- • Emergency Management and National Preparedness
- • Prevention
- • Protection
- • Mitigation
- • Response
- • Recovery
- • Planning
- • Emergency Response Plans
- • Public Information and Warning
- • Media and Public Relations
- • National Incident Management System
- • Incident Command System
- • Business and Operations Continuity
- • Challenges and Future Considerations for Security Professionals
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 12: Critical Infrastructure Security
- • Introduction
- • Critical Infrastructure Defined
- • Key Resources
- • Spotlight The New World Trade Center
- • Threat Analysis
- • Protecting CIKR
- • National Infrastructure Protection Plan
- • The National Response Framework
- • Information Sharing
- • Spotlight Critical Infrastructure in Occupied Territory
- • CIKR Protection at the Federal Level
- • Interagency Cooperation
- • Security Exercise
- • State, Local, and Tribal CIKR Concerns and Responsibilities
- • Fusion Centers
- • Protecting CIKR and the Private Sector
- • Industry Concerns
- • Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Security
- • Benefits of Cooperation
- • Cooperation in Practice
- • New York Police Department SHIELD
- • The Law Enforcement and Private Security Organization El Paso
- • Target & BLUE
- • Operation Cooperation
- • InfraGard
- • The Process of CIKR Protection
- • Vulnerability Assessment Guidelines
- • Vulnerability Assessment Tools
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
Chapter 13: Information, Cyber, and Computer Security
- • Introduction
- • Security in Practice Securing Client Networks
- • Information Security and Cyber/Computer Security
- • Information Security (INFOSEC)
- • Spotlight Wikileaks
- • Information Security Threats and Concerns
- • Spotlight Facebook
- • Spotlight Edward Snowden
- • Cyber/Computer Security
- • Cybercrimes
- • Spotlight Nigerian Scams
- • Identity theft
- • Cybercriminals
- • How Do They Do It?
- • Spotlight U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
- • Spotlight Ransomware
- • Mobile Security
- • Mobile Payments
- • Cloud Computing
- • The Smart Grid
- • Mesh Networks
- • Internet of Things
- • Human Enhancements
- • Driverless Vehicles
- • Here Come the White Hats: Security’s Role in Countering Cyberattacks
- • Elicit Management Commitment
- • Securing Passwords
- • Require Firewalls
- • Encourage a Computer User Baseline
- • Countering Cyberthreats
- • Spotlight Cyber Storm
- • Cyberthreats from Within
- • Cyberwarfare and Cyberterrorism
- • Cyberterrorism
- • Spotlight Anonymous
- • Cyber Vigilantism
- • Fighting the Cyberwar
- • Cyber Caliphate
- • Spotlight What Can We Do with Cyberspace?
- • Careers in Security
- • Summary
- • Key Terms
- • Review Questions
- • Practical Application
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