Introducing The Handbook of Security

Gill, Martin

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“…Today there is an extensive and diverse scholarly literature on the market for security (for a recent overview see Gill 2014). A common feature of this literature, however, is the assumption that it is possible to transform security goods whether in their human form (the labour of private security officers) or nonhuman form (security equipment, .…”

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Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security

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The British Journal of Criminology

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Scholars of security governance generally assume that the labour of private security officers can straightforwardly be transformed into discrete commodities. We argue, by contrast, that it is extremely difficult to commodify the labour of private security officers because their duties frequently require them to confront and work through both economic responsibilities (what does my contract say?) and moral obligations (what does my conscience say?). We substantiate this argument by exploring how heroic acts performed by private security officers preventing suicide attempts, intervening in violent assaults, orchestrating hazardous evacuations are celebrated through industry awards ceremonies. In so doing, we not only contribute towards the conceptualisation of security goods as contested commodities, but also facilitate a reappraisal of the market for security.

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Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security

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The British Journal of Criminology

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“…As the negative impact of security risks usually is a kind of damage, disruption, or a decline in health, wellbeing or prosperity, it might be comparable with loss. In the security domain security risk management and reduction of a possible negative impact is considered the main goal of a security professional (Gill 2014). So, in this domain a level of professional risk aversion might be expected.…”

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Biases in security risk management: Do security professionals follow prospect theory in their decisions?

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Pieters

Jansen³

et al. 2021

Journal of Integrated Security and Safety Science

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Security professionals play a decisive role in security risk decision making, with important implications for security in organisations and society. Because of this subjective input in security understanding possible biases in this process is paramount. In this paper, well known biases as observed and described in prospect theory are studied in individual security risk decision making by security professionals. To this end, we distributed a questionnaire among security professionals including both original dilemmas from prospect theory and dilemmas adapted to the context of incident prevention. It was hypothesised that security professionals dealing with risks and decision making under risk on an almost daily basis would or should be less vulnerable to decision biases involving risks, in particular when framed in terms of incident prevention. The results show that security professionals are vulnerable to decision biases at the same scale as lay people, but some biases are weaker when decision problems are framed in terms of security as opposed to monetary gains and losses. Of the individual characteristics defining experience, only the general education level observably affects vulnerability for biases in security decision making in this study. A higher general education level leads to a significantly higher vulnerability to decision biases. By highlighting the vulnerability of security professionals to decision biases, this study contributes essential awareness and knowledge for improved decision making, for example by different representation of probabilities and uncertainty.

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“…There has been more research of late on the 'high end' of the private security industry (see O'Reilly, 2010), namely, contract corporate security services (Williams 2005a(Williams , b, 2012 and investigation services (Gill andHart, 1997, 1999) but still far less than on contract guard services. Williams (2005b), for example, documents what he calls the 'forensic accounting and corporate investigation services' industry: 'a diverse and loosely coupled network of private firms and professional groups providing investigative, advisory and adjudicative services to clients embroiled in cases of economic and financial wrongdoing, whether as "victims" or "offenders" ' (p. 188).…”

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“…Conducted a decade ago, this study had discerned that 'corporate security has shifted into a more managerial mode' and moved up the organizational hierarchy (Nalla and Morash, 2002, p. 17). On the basis of this rare survey, corporate security research is perhaps rightfully thought to be conceptually impoverished compared with the green pastures of contract guard security, public police, and national and international security (which are not always mutually exclusive -see Gill, 2006;Petersen, 2013). We think corporate security is worth renewed study in its own right, but also as a well-spring of insights about trends in contemporary security and policing and forms of accountability.…”

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Multiplicities of corporate security: Identifying emerging types, trends and issues

Lippert

Walby

Steckle

2013

Secur J

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This article explores types and topics in corporate security work by developing a new typology along five dimensions -public/private, in/outsource, oversight, work type, and certification/training and personnel selection. Using this typology reveals emerging trends (such as decommodification or insourcing), challenges (such as accountability and oversight) and benefits (a greater range of legal and other powers) related to corporate security. To illustrate this typology's value, as well as the limits of existing literature, the article considers findings from research on a nascent public, in-house, government form of corporate security: municipal government corporate security offices in Canada. We conclude by discussing decommodification or insourcing as well as expert certification and training and what these trends mean for scholarly debate about corporate security.

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Introducing The Handbook of Security

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security

Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security

Biases in security risk management: Do security professionals follow prospect theory in their decisions?

Multiplicities of corporate security: Identifying emerging types, trends and issues

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