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Guarding the public: a statutory analysis of state regulation of security guards
Jeff Maahs,Craig Hemmens +1 more
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There is wide variation among states in the type of behavior that disqualifies individuals from becoming a security guard and the minimum requirements for becoming a guard, and there is a vast difference between regulation levels among the states.About:
This article is published in Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 1998-01-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Security guard & Guard (information security).read more
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The Private Security Industry in International Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe, from an international perspective, the state of the art of the private security industry, comparing the size of the sector, the turnover, and regulation between European and non-European countries.
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A Survey of Security Legislation and Regulatory Strategies in Australia
Tim Prenzler,Rick Sarre +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the first national survey of legislation regulating the security industry in Australia and report that the industry was up to three times the numerical strength of the police.
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Seeing private security like a state
TL;DR: In this paper, a modal typology of state regulation of contract private security has been constructed based on a systematic and detailed statutory analysis of 58 jurisdictions in Canada and the United States.
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Security officers’ attitudes towards training and their work environment
TL;DR: It is found that some of the officers improvise the needs and demands of their jobs with experiences drawn from prior employment; however, unlike Manzo’s study, security officers perceived a lack of adequate training to perform their tasks effectively and strongly endorsed the importance of and need for systematic and standardized training.
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‘Lowering the threshold of effective deterrence’—Testing the effect of private security agents in public spaces on crime: A randomized controlled trial in a mass transit system
TL;DR: Private policing for crime prevention theory is illustrated by a significant 16% reduction in victim-generated crimes at the entirety of the stations’ complexes, with a 49% increase in police-generated detections at the target locations.
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Black's Law Dictionary
TL;DR: The 7th edition of the Black's Law Dictionary as discussed by the authors is the most comprehensive, authoritative, scholarly, and accessible American law dictionary ever published, and it has a strong reputation as a legal reference tool for the 21st century.
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Introduction to Criminal Justice
John L. Worrall,Larry J. Siegel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of crime, law, and criminal justice, and the nature and extent of crime in the modern world. But their focus is on the criminal justice system.
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Private security trends, 1970 to 2000 : the Hallcrest report II
TL;DR: America's price tag - economic crime selected crime concerns dimensions of protection security personnel security market analysis comparisons of private security and law enforcement employment and expenditures relationships and co-operative programmes major security and police issues findings, recommendations, forecasts and research needs.