Security and Risk Management. Selected Academic Essays

This collection of essays outlines the work of one BSc student in Security and Risk Management from the University of Portsmouth, UK. It provides useful insights towards a better understanding of the topics of security, risk and organised crime.

This book will be of particular relevance for BSc students in security and risk management and for security professionals who would like to deepen their academic knowledge.

List of essays:

What are the main influences on the function of a security manager in the retail and aviation sectors?

Is there such a thing as an unified theory of risk and does the academic literature account for such principle adequately?

There has been a move away from risk as probability to risk as accountability and liability which place the emphasis upon the individual

Business continuity management has evolved as a business function

Critically discuss how corporate security management is evolving

The introduction of more privatisation into public policing will bring lower standards and risk greater corruption

Critically examine the appropriateness of the term ‘organised crime’