Security and Loss Prevention: An Introduction, Third Edition - Hardcover

Purpura CPP Florence Darlington Technical College, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750696427 ISBN 13: 9780750696425

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998

Synopsis

This third edition of Security and Loss Prevention has been updated with newer laws, technology, security strategies, and statistics to meet the needs of the ever-changing security profession. The text provides an introduction to security and loss prevention with an emphasis on strategies to prevent and reduce the incidence of crime, fire, and accident.

This new edition serves as a helpful directory, providing addresses and phone numbers for important security-related organizations. It is user-friendly and interactive, with learning objectives, sidebars, case problems, boxes, and international perspectives.

Thoroughly updated and revised
Retains the excellent coverage of the original editions
Recommended reading for the CPP exam

About this title

From the Publisher

This new edition serves as a helpful directory, providing addresses and phone numbers for important security-related organizations. It is user-friendly and interactive, with learning objectives, sidebars, case problems, boxes, and international perspectives.

From the Back Cover

BACK COVER:

Continuing the tradition of the original editions, the Fourth Edition of Security and Loss Prevention is designed to provide security students and professionals with an introduction to loss prevention concepts and security program implementation. Functioning as a bridge between physical security and computer security, the Fourth Edition provides proven strategies to prevent and reduce incidents of loss due to crime, fire, accident, error, and mismanagement.

The Fourth Edition is completely updated with new coverage of Information Technology (IT) as it relates to Physical Security, the Business and Careers of Security and Loss Prevention, Risk Analysis, E-business Loss Prevention, and OSHA standards. The book includes new case studies, sidebar questions, international perspectives, Web exercises, and industry links throughout the text. Written in a reader-friendly, interactive style, it serves as an essential reference to applying loss prevention theory to create real-world security solutions.

Philip P. Purpura, CPP, has been a security educator for more than 20 years and has directed criminal justice, security, and paralegal programs. Mr. Purpura holds bachelor's and master's degrees in criminal justice from the University of Dayton and Eastern Kentucky University, respectively and has served as a security consultant, expert witness, security manager, corporate investigator, and police officer. Mr. Purpura is the author of four other Butterworth-Heinemann titles and numerous articles published in newsletters, magazines, and journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0750696427
• ISBN 13: 9780750696425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384