NCJ Number
175800
Date Published
1997
Length
295 pages
Annotation
This text recognizes vulnerability assessment and target hardening are very important components of the crime and loss prevention field and discusses effective physical security measures in terms of design, equipment, and operations.
Abstract
The first part of the text covers design, with particular attention paid to the need for collaboration in the building design phase between crime prevention and security officers and architects, security surveys, crime prevention through environmental design strategies and applications, and approaches to physical security. In focusing on equipment, the second part of the text emphasizes physical barriers, the use of locks in physical crime prevention, safes and vaults, security lighting, alarms and intrusion detection systems, closed circuit television surveillance, electronic surveillance and wiretapping, physical access control for computer areas, and electronic access control and system integration. The third part of the text covers operations related to guard services, bomb and physical security planning, and public relations and the media. References, tables, and figures