"This book looks at the roles played by both private and public security agencies in tourism. It emphasizes best … practices, provides in-depth understanding of how different agencies handle their tourism industry, and looks at budget … restraints, how tourism security conferences are filling an educational void and what the industry needs to do to remain viable"-- …

This chapter focuses upon machine learning algorithms within police decision-making in England and Wales, specifically … tools underpinned by machine learning to aid police decision-making, and notes the impact of austerity as a driver for the … protection common law duties and functions of the police, a broad and imprecise legal base that the ECtHR in Catt found less than …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its … between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average …

police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional …