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Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
Dr Alison Wakefield is Senior Lecturer in Security Risk Management at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. She is also Vice Chairman of the Security Institute, the UK’s main member association for security practitioners, and Academic Adviser to the Chartered Security Professionals Registration Authority. Alison’s publications include Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space (Willan Publishing, 2003), The Sage Dictionary of Policing, edited with Jenny Fleming (Sage, 2009) and Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention, edited with Andrew von Hirsch and David Garland (Hart Publishing, 2000). She is currently writing a book for Sage examining security threats and provisions holistically, from the global through to the individual level.
