

NEW Crime Analysis: Assessing Threats
to Optimize Security (Kindle Edition)
While the daily assessment of terror threats applies primarily to security
professionals who are charged with protecting critical infrastructure assets,
such as chemical plants, oil refineries, and transportation ports, most security
professionals focus on terrorism as a high risk, low probability concern which
needs to be addressed on an irregular basis. Once terrorism contingency plans,
emergency procedures, and business continuity plans are established, security
professionals can once again turn their attention to the daily risks that
threaten an organization’s assets. Everyday crimes are the most common threat
facing security professionals in protecting their assets (targets) and a
thorough assessment of the specific nature of crime can reveal possible
weaknesses in a facility’s security posture and provide a guide to effective
solutions. A full understanding of everyday crime at specific sites allows
security professionals to select and implement appropriate countermeasures to
reduce the opportunity for such incidents to occur again.

NEW Strategic Security Management supports data driven security that is measurable, quantifiable and practical. Written for security professionals and other professionals responsible for making security decisions as well as for security management and criminal justice students, this text provides a fresh perspective on the risk assessment process. It also provides food for thought on protecting an organizations assets, giving decision makers the foundation needed to climb the next step up the corporate ladder.
Strategic Security Management fills a definitive need for guidelines on security best practices. The book also explores the process of in-depth security analysis for decision making, and provides the reader with the framework needed to apply security concepts to specific scenarios. Advanced threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment techniques are presented as the basis for security strategies. These concepts are related back to establishing effective
security programs, including program implementation, management, and evaluation. The book also covers metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, personnel, and electronic measures.
Strategic Security Management contains contributions by many renowned security experts, such as Nick Vellani, Karl Langhorst, Brian Gouin, James Clark, Norman Bates, and Charles Sennewald.
* Provides clear direction on how to meet new business demands on the security professional.
* Guides the security professional in using hard data to drive a security strategy, and follows through with the
means to measure success of the program.
* Covers threat assessment, vulnerability assessment, and risk assessment
and highlights the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of each.

Applied Crime Analysis compares data sources used in conducting crime analysis and explores ways to organize statistical data, crime analysis methodologies, crime prevention theories, and methods of determining patterns and trends. By explaining the significance of crime statistics relative to crime prevention theory and techniques, the book provides readers with a clear, strategic plan to implement crime prevention programs and security resources. Discusses crime analysis techniques and theories in detail. Covers all aspects of crime analysis for private sector businesses. Uses fictional case studies found throughout chapters that help readers apply statistical data to practical, everyday use.
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Sugar Land , TX 77496
Phone: 281.494.1515
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