Purpose - This paper aims to examine the effects on firms' outcomes of a new government regulation on the private security industry that aimed to enhance the selection and training processes for armed-private security officers. Design/methodology/approach - By using human capital theory and...

This is a review of the 2020 IASOC Prize Winner Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City by Rolando Ochoa. Ochoa provides a masterful account of how private citizens understand risk, as kidnapping continues to be a significant problem in Mexico, and manage their private...

The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the private sphere has...

The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the private sphere has...

This research on public drinking-related conflict and violence has studied the views and experience of security officers and young male drinkers in the Newcastle/Hunter areas of New South Wales, Australia. These participants were recruited non-randomly into different focus groups, and...

The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the private sphere has...

Private protection and public policing interact in the fight against property crime. While property owners tailor their level of private protection to their property value, the level of public policing is chosen by elected officials for society as a whole. When the median voter's property is...

Purpose The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers. Design/methodology/approach The...

"This book brings a blend of different areas of Machine Learning and the recent advances in the area. From the use of ML in healthcare to security, the book encompasses several areas related to ML while keeping a check on the traditional ML algorithms. It describes the predictive analysis and...

List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: The impact on public safety of corruption2 Data, definition of terms, method, theory and presentation3 Case studies3.1 Nuclear soldiers3.2 The Marine Electric loss3.3 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster3.4 The Adam Air...

This essay demonstrates that, because of the flexible definition of “security,” certain interests have the potential to fall in and out of the definition, and thus in and out of securities regulation. This essay coins this potentiality “shapeshifting.” The phenomenon of shapeshifting...

This paper examines the development and impact of Chinese Private Security Companies (PSCs) in Kenya. Adopting a qualitative methodology approach, the study begins with an extensive literature review, followed by the findings from a month of fieldwork conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. The first part...

Accredited investors as defined in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation D occupy a favored spot in the world of federal securities law and may participate in investment opportunities not available to other investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views accredited...

It is well known that as a result of spiralling crime rates, public expenditures for police protection have been rising at a rapid rate. It is less well known, however, that private expenditures for guards, protective services and equipment have kept pace with the increasing public expenditures....

This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private information. Within a framework in which potential criminals can choose between various crime opportunities, we establish that decentralized decision-making by potential victims may...

We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. We depart from the literature on entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition), especially in innovation based industries. Striving for a...

1. An Overview of Private Security and Policing in the United States -- 2. Allocating Police and Security: Comparing Public and Private Processes and Consequences -- 3. Public Space Crime Prevention Partnerships: Reviewing the Evidence -- 4. Australian Public and Private Crime Prevention...

Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated experts like community organizers and police...

Companies targeted by SEC enforcement actions often face parallel private class actions under the federal securities laws based on the same underlying conduct. But when the SEC selects enforcement targets, negotiates settlements, and assesses its own performance, it is unclear whether or how the...

Ziel dieses Working Papers ist die Betrachtung der Rolle der Sicherheitswirtschaft in Deutschland im Rahmen der Corona-Krise. Dazu wurde durch die Autoren eine Umfrage unter Führungskräften aus Unternehmen der Sicherheitswirtschaft durchgeführt, deren Ergebnisse hier vorgestellt werden. Die...

We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource to n clients, each of whom...

Security measures intended to deter crime may unwittingly displace it to neighboring areas, but evidence of displacement is scarce. We exploit precise information on the timing and locations of all bank robberies and security guard hirings and firings in Italy over a 10-year period to estimate...

AbstractThe impacts of violence unleashed by the Islamic sect popularly known as Boko Haram have become a nation-wide concern in Nigeria in recent years. Almost every day television stations broadcast, shows this trend, newspaper, magazine and internet websites run and re-run pictures of the...

This paper studies the influence of institutional quality and income inequality on the private provision of security. It is argued that the effects of both factors are far from straightforward and should be thoroughly examined when variation in institutional quality and income inequality is...

This paper analyzes the rise and demise of piracy off the coast of Somalia to highlight the interplay between public and private crime protection measures. Using unique data on attacks, hijacks, and ransoms, the authors estimate a structural model of Somali piracy to calculate the elasticity of...

Nicht zuletzt die Corona-Pandemie hat verdeutlicht, warum es einen Staat braucht, der seine Bürger schützen, notleidende Unternehmen stützen und lebensrettende Infrastrukturen - Stichwort: Impfungen - organisieren kann. Dessen ungeachtet hallt das Credo des ?schlanken? Staates in weiten...

This ground-breaking book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalism and terrorist practice. Assessing the increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed against commercial entities in urban areas, such as the Westgate mall in Nairobi or the Charlie Hebdo offices in...

We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. Departing from the common practice of using survival as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by the same underlying process. High-opportunity-cost...

Die Sicherheitsindustrie bleibt ein Wachstumsmarkt. Ob geopolitische Konflikte, internationaler Terrorismus, Gewaltkriminalität oder Cyber-Risiken - es gibt viele akute Gründe, um in Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu investieren. Allein der internationale Terrorismus verursachte im Jahr 2014 direkte...