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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation...

In this Chapter, Hannah Tonkin examines in detail the challenges that confront states in supervising and managing private military and security companies (PMSCs) effectively in the field, particularly in weak or conflict-prone states. Effective management of PMSCs is problematic and the stakes...

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...

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt systematisch alle Fachgebiete der IHK-Sachkundeprüfung nach dem aktuellen Rahmenstoffplan. Besonderen Wert hat der Autor dabei auf den oft als schwierig empfundenen Rechtsteil gelegt: Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele veranschaulichen die Gesetzestexte und ihre...

Dieses Übungsbuch ergänzt das gleichnamige Lehrbuch. Es schließt die Lücke zwischen dem Unterrichts- und Lernstoff und der Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung. Mit Hilfe der Fragen und Antworten können Lernende den wichtigen Prüfungsstoff strukturiert wiederholen, den eigenen Lernfortschritt...

Alle relevanten Gesetze und Vorschriften der Sicherheitswirtschaft auf einen Blick - die ideale Hilfe bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und ein schnelles Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis. Der Umgang mit den Gesetzestexten wird durch Kommentare und Hinweise zu den wichtigsten Paragrafen erleichtert,...

What determines professional motivations and values of security operatives: sector or profession? Our article aims to answer this question through a survey study among police officers (n = 405) and private security guards (n = 329) in the Netherlands. Our results show that both groups closely...

With Amgen, the Supreme Court's majority once again holds that inquiry into the alleged market impact of a misrepresentation is not required to invoke fraud on the market approach to causation so that the class can be certified. Rather than just leaving matters where they have been since the...

Dieses Übungsbuch ergänzt das gleichnamige Lehrbuch. Es schließt die Lücke zwischen dem Unterrichts- und Lernstoff und der Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung. Mit Hilfe der Fragen und Antworten können Lernende den wichtigen Prüfungsstoff strukturiert wiederholen, den eigenen Lernfortschritt...

Alle relevanten Gesetze und Vorschriften der Sicherheitswirtschaft auf einen Blick - die ideale Hilfe bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und ein schnelles Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis. Der Umgang mit den Gesetzestexten wird durch Kommentare und Hinweise zu den wichtigsten Paragrafen erleichtert,...

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

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...

Armed conflict and occupation are by definition necessarily violent for all participants, be they civilians or combatants. However, for women it heralds an exacerbation in existing violence, discrimination and inequalities. While international humanitarian law (IHL) has dedicated or ‘special'...

The global trend for contracting out the supply of military and security services is growing. Security is being transformed from a service for the public or common good into a privately provided service. The present paper by Nikolaos Tzifakis argues that the implications of outsourcing security...

Police necessarily retain the major role in enforcing the law after crimes have been committed and offenders have been apprehended. However, given that public sector policing draws heavily on equipment and personnel services supplied by private providers, and that public police officers have...

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...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch behandelt systematisch alle Fachgebiete der IHK-Sachkundeprüfung nach dem aktuellen Rahmenstoffplan. Besonderen Wert hat der Autor dabei auf den oft als schwierig empfundenen Rechtsteil gelegt: Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele veranschaulichen die Gesetzestexte und...