Spectator Perceptions of Security Management at a NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) Event (Report‪)‬

Spectator Perceptions of Security Management at a NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) Event High-profile sporting events in the United States have been identified by the federal Department of Homeland Security as potential terrorist targets (Office of Homeland Security, 2002, p. 86). According to Goss, Jubenville, and MacBeth (n.d.), an act of sports-related terrorism is inevitable, a matter of when and where, not if--and of how the act will change the sporting world forever. Philpott (2007) explained that effective security management is imperative at large sporting events with many spectators, because there is potential for mass casualties as well as for catastrophic social and economic impacts.