Doing Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Mapping Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Private Security, Nodal Governance and the Security System

      • Mark Button

      Pages 3-24

3. Security Undone

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Security Failure and the Security Myth

      • Mark Button

      Pages 27-53

   3. Understanding the Malefactors

      • Mark Button

      Pages 54-74

   4. The Human Element of the Security System

      • Mark Button

      Pages 75-94

   5. The Foundations of Security

      • Mark Button

      Pages 95-119

4. Doing Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Creating a Model Holistic Security System

      • Mark Button

      Pages 123-142

   3. Making it Never Happen

      • Mark Button

      Pages 143-164

   4. Making the Last Resort Count

      • Mark Button

      Pages 165-189

   5. Rebuilding the Foundations of Security

      • Mark Button

      Pages 190-217

5. Concluding Comments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Concluding Comments and a Model for Doing Security

      • Mark Button

      Pages 221-227

6. Back Matter

   Pages 228-251

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Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard. This book explores the problems facing security, and sets out innovative proposals to enhance the effectiveness of security in society, at national and organizational levels.

• Agenda
• Governance
• list of abbreviations
• organization

'...It's welcome to have this book, brimming with ideas by someone with academic rigour...I have to stress what a wide-ranging, assured and thought-provoking read this is for the UK (and indeed Irish and other English-speaking) security person...this is a first stop for picking up ideas and quotes. There aren't many published books out there that the security manager ought to have on his shelf...One of them is Prof Martin Gill's Handbook of Security...Doing Security is another...That's the stature of this.' Professional Security

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Mark Button

MARK BUTTON is Principal Lecturer and Associate Head (Curriculum) at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK, prior to which he was a Research Assistant to the Rt Hon Bruce George MP. He has written extensively on private security, policing and fraud. His publications include Private Security (co-authored) Private Policing and Security Officers and Policing.

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