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Security networks are increasing in number and in importance across the security field as a means of providing inter-agency coordination. On the basis of a detailed qualitative study of networks in the field of national security in Australia, this article aims to advance our knowledge of the internal properties of security networks and conditions shaping their performance. It places ‘cooperation’, ‘coordination’ and ‘collaboration’ on a continuum, with cooperation at one end and collaboration at the other end, and aims to illustrate how each of these ‘Cs’ shape the performance of security networks. The central argument is that the performance of security networks increases as the network moves from cooperation to collaboration. Drawing on interviews with senior members of security, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the article aims to highlight the lessons for how to strategically manage security networks in ways that promote collaboration.

The adoption of an Internal Security Strategy (ISS) in the European Union (EU) in 2010 raised not only expectations but also a number of questions from EU scholars and practitioners. Where did it come from? Who was behind the strategy? What will be its effect on actual cooperation and policy outcomes? This article takes a historical perspective to help answer these questions. We examine the ISS from three perspectives – its origin, its formulation and its eventual content – and examine how these perspectives illuminate the likely impact of the ISS. Using some ‘ideal-type’ benefits attributed to strategies generally – including political-symbolic benefits, cohering effects and operational guidance – we assess whether the history of the ISS is likely to enable or constrain success. While further research is needed, our analysis of developments in the months after adoption of the ISS suggests that its history may serve to undermine its impact on both cooperation and policy.

The risks that tourists perceive during their travels are relevant for their travel experience. Thus, safety has become one of the most important issues not only for travellers, but also for the tourism industry and all its related stakeholders. The reason for safety being prioritised is that tourists share their experiences online, thus forming tourism electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), which has a definite impact on the tourism destination image (TDI) and influencing future tourists. Therefore, it is relevant to analyse travel reviews to explore, identify and tackle the problems of tourism destination. This paper focuses on analysing the online travel reviews related to the safety issues within the rail systems of three specific destinations. For many visitors, the train network is the first point of contact for tourists with the destinations and have a significant impact on their experience. The content analysis of online travel reviews aims to reveal the factors that influence tourism safety perception, allowing some specific recommendations for destination management organisations to improve tourists’ experience and the projected image of destination in terms of safety.

In criminal networks, facilitators seem to play a subordinate role in terms of low financial profit and high risk of being identified in police investigations. Their role is hypothesized to be explained by factors related to poverty or, broadly stated, deprivation. This study explores these factors in a social housing context. Through standardized interviews with employees of social housing institutions, factors distinguishing between facilitators and non-facilitators were identified through univariate and network analyses. Drug use, unemployability, stress, one-person household, and high crime rate neighborhood discriminated most. Financial problems, deviant social relations, impulsivity, social isolation, and low self-esteem also appeared to be relevant. The conclusion that deprivation-related vulnerabilities might increase the risk of becoming a facilitator provides leads for future interventions and research.

Within the past few years, we have seen increasing use of mobile devices in the healthcare environment. It is crucial to understand healthcare practitioners’ attitudes and behaviors towards adopting mobile devices and to interacting with security controls, while understanding their risks and stringent regulations in healthcare. This paper aims to understand how healthcare practitioners perceive the security risks of using mobile devices, and how this risk perception affects their intention to use the devices, and to adopt the security controls that are required. To facilitate such understanding, we propose a theory-grounded conceptual model that incorporates subjective beliefs, perception of security risk, and behavioral intentions to both use mobile devices and comply with security controls. Furthermore, we studied the behavioral intentions under two scenarios among practitioners, when healthcare institutions provided the mobile devices, called hospital-provided devices, or when practitioners used their own devices, bring-your-own-devices. Based upon our conceptual model, we conducted an empirical study, recruiting 264 healthcare practitioners from three hospitals and their affiliated clinics. Our study provided several practical implications. First, we confirmed that it is critical in healthcare institutions to have safeguards on mobile devices that are convenient for practitioners to adopt. Second, to promote security policy compliance in mobile devices and safeguard medical information, healthcare administrators must take different approaches to security depending on how they provide mobile devices to practitioners. Third, the security training for devices should deliver different messages to different occupational groups. Last but not the least, our proposed model offers new perspectives towards a better understanding of integrating perceived security risk, behavioral intention to adopt a technology, and behavioral intention to comply with security control in the healthcare industry.

This paper presents a literature analysis of the research that examines whether there are gender differences in the extent and nature of workplace violence in the United States. Overall, the results from the studies reviewed suggest that gender differences rather than gender similarities characterise workplace violence. Workplace incidents of violence committed against male and female employees were distinguished by (a) trends in the extent of workplace violence, (b) the type of violence, (c) work-related deaths, (d) the type of occupation, (e) job characteristics, (f) the victim-offender relationship, (g) the motives behind the violence, and (h) the impacts of the violence. Security and violence prevention issues and directions for the future are also discussed.