Preparedness of Large Retail Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack, 2004 [United States]

Davis, Robert; Ortiz, Christopher; Rowe, Robert; Broz, Joseph; Rigakos, George S.; Collins, Pam

doi:10.3886/icpsr21140

Cited by 4 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…see Hall (2003) and Erman (2002). 19 Davis et al (2006) point to the low wages in the private security sector, coupled with poor career prospects as the major factors causing this. 20 Israel essentially has a three-cordon approach to security of shopping centers, each involving a different expertise.…”

Section: Security Measuresmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Indeed, the majority of protection is provided by private security (Davis et al 2006). Mall owners and operators have had a vested interest in doing this, and in cooperating with police forces and other private parties (e.g.…”

Section: The Roles Of the Public And Private Sectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Without them it is impossible to say how well staff would respond in the event of a major incident. The Report concluded, 'The private sector generally has not invested in improving security to cope with emergency situations such as a terrorist attack or to protect against petty crimes' (Davis et al 2006).…”

Section: Mall Security Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A study for the Police Foundation (Davis et al 2006), funded by the US Justice Department, involving the surveying of 33 state homeland security advisers and 120 security directors of some of the nation's largest indoor shopping centers, as well as visiting eight US malls and two shopping centers in Israel, where security precautions are among the most rigid in the world, sought to assesses changes in security since 2001. The survey found that state governments had done little to enhance safety precautions with only five of the state homeland security officials saying they had provided additional funding to major shopping centers.…”

Section: Mall Security Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

The economics of shopping mall security

Button

2008

J Transp Secur

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Shopping malls form important links in the logistics supply chain. They have also been regular targets for terrorist attacks, especially assaults with bombs, outside of the USA, including attacks in the UK, Spain, and Russia, and there is concern that they may be future targets within the USA. To be commercially attractive, shopping centers have had to inherently 'open' areas with wide ranging access for retailers and shoppers and have been provided with copious car parking capacity. Their potential vulnerability is thus high. As in many areas involving security, however, the amount of economic analysis, even at the most basic level, of the issues involved in countering terrorist threats to shopping malls is very limited. This paper sets out a broad economic model indicating the nature of the challenges imposed on those trying to protect shopping malls from terrorist attack. It offers some indication of the quantitative scale of both the potential damage that a series of attacks could impose on society and the costs of initiating security measures. While the USA is the primary subject of analysis, the paper also ranges over the situation in several other countries where this is germane to the argument.

show abstract

Section: Security Measuresmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: The Roles Of the Public And Private Sectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mall Security Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mall Security Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

The economics of shopping mall security

Button

2008

J Transp Secur

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A STO is a open public access area with multiple entrances and exits where a large number of people come and go regularly, which is more vulnerable to terrorist attack, and which shows more possibility of higher causalities in case of any terrorist attack (Davis et al, 2006;Uddin and Hossain, 2009). Examples of such organizations include transit hubs, school, public parks and sports areas.…”

Section: Stomentioning

confidence: 99%

Design patterns: coordination in complex and dynamic environments

Hossain

Uddin

2012

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual foundation and empirical basis for exploring issues related to the design framework for modeling coordination in complex and dynamic environments. Design/methodology/approach -Previous research suggests that interactions among actors in a complex and dynamic environment tend to be more elastic, offering a higher degree of adaptability. Actions of actors in such an environment need to be coordinated to achieve the desired goal. With that purpose, the authors suggest a social network-based (SN-based) framework to model coordination in complex and dynamic environments. Findings -The authors successfully applied the proposed SN-based framework to model coordination in the context of soft-target organization and emergency response preparedness. Originality/value -It is apparent that much work has been done in existing studies on modeling coordination considering the specific domain situation in a complex and dynamic environment. In this paper, the authors propose a unique framework to model coordination in a complex and dynamic environment.

show abstract

The role of the private sector in counter-terrorism: a scoping review of the literature on emergency responses to terrorism

Phelps

2020

Secur J

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Preparedness of Large Retail Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack, 2004 [United States]

Cited by 4 publications

References 0 publications

The economics of shopping mall security

The economics of shopping mall security

Design patterns: coordination in complex and dynamic environments

The role of the private sector in counter-terrorism: a scoping review of the literature on emergency responses to terrorism

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About