Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5th Edition

Key Features

* Covers every important topic in the field, including the latest on wireless security applications, data analysis and visualization, situational crime prevention, and global security standards and compliance issues
* Required reading for the certification DHS selected for its infrastructure security professionals
* Each chapter is contributed by a top security professional with subject-matter expertise

Description

The Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5^th Edition, is a trusted foundation for security professionals just entering the field and a reference for seasoned professionals. This book provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to security and crime prevention, tools and technologies to put these approaches into action, and information on a wide range of specific areas within the field of physical security. These include school and campus security, cargo security, access control, the increasingly violent healthcare security environment, and prevention or mitigation of terrorism and natural disasters.

Readership

Certification candidates for ASIS CPP credentials; security professionals; students in Security Management and Criminal Justice programs in traditional and for-profit schools

Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5th Edition

Part One: Approaches to Crime Prevention & Loss Prevention

1. Risk Assessment
2. Threats Definition
3. Designing Security and Working with Architects
4. Designing Crime Risk Management Systems
5. Approaches to Physical Security
6. The Security Survey & The Security Audit
7. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in the Twenty First Century
8. Environment Crime Control
9. Community Policing/Problem Solving Policing
10. Neighborhood Watch Guidelines for the 21 st Century
11. Situational Crime Prevention and Opportunity Blocking
12. Design and Evaluation
13. Planning, Management, and Evaluation
14. Crime Analysis and Data Collection
15. Standards, Regulations & Guidelines: Compliance and Your Security Program, including global resources.

Part Two: Security Operations, Tools, and Technology

16. Access Control, Access Badges & Biometrics Characteristic
17. Alarms: Intrusion Detection Systems
18. CCTV Surveillance
19. Security Lighting
20. Information Technology Systems Infrastructure
21 Information Security
22. Protective Barriers
23. Physical Barriers
24. Fence Standards
25. The Use of Locks in Physical Crime Prevention
26. Safes, Vaults and Accessories
27. Guard Service in the Twenty-First Century
28. Internal Theft Controls
29. Bombs and Physical Planning
30. Paradigms for School Safety & Security
31. College Campus Security
32. Domestic Violence
33. Propriety Information
34. Identity Theft
35. Retail Security-Employee Theft
36. High-Rise Security
37. Multi-Residential Security
38. Lodging Hospitality Security
39. Computer & Transportation Security
40. The Security Professional, Terrorism, Bio-Terrorism and the Next Level
41. Contingency Planning
42. Emergency Preparedness-Planning& Management
43. Broadband Industry Fraud: A Case Study from a Cable Provider
44. Cargo Security
45. Corporate Policy and Procedures