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3 results foundAuthor: Felbab-Brown, Vanda Title: Security Considerations for Conducting Fieldwork in Highly Dangerous Places or on Highly Dangerous Subjects Summary: While readily acknowledging that interviewing criminals, militants and intelligence and security actors can get one arrested, kidnapped or killed, Felbab-Brown presents a set of fieldwork guidelines and personal anecdotes that illustrate possible approaches for researchers as they confront the very real security threats inherent to their line of work. Felbab-Brown argues that conducting both secure and effective research that minimizes threats to the external and internal validity of causal claims and policy assessment demands extensive preparation and the ability to stay calm under pressure, while also knowing how to turn adrenaline into one's advantage, engage in quick, on-the-spot reasoning and make continual judgments about the fluid security situation in which one is working. She emphasizes the importance of specific logistical and security preparation-which can easily equal the time to be spent in the field-and advises that multiple research trips are usually necessary for establishing a set of contacts that can eventually serve as a gateway to certain regions, interlocutors and interviewees. Details: Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, Social Science Research Council, 2014. 29p. Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper on Research Security No. 3,: Accessed June 26, 2014 at: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/06/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown_report.pdf Year: 2014 Country: International URL: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/06/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown_report.pdf Shelf Number: 132546 Keywords: Personal SecurityRisky Places |
Author: Stakic, Isidora Title: Perceptions of Personal Safety and Perceptions of Security Threats at the Local Level: A Comparative Overview of Serbia, Kosovo and Albania Summary: This comparative analysis of the results of public opinion surveys in Serbia, Kosovo and Albania indicates a relatively strong feeling of personal safety among respondents from all three communities. However, respondents do not see that state institutions contribute to this situation, and they are mostly dissatisfied with the performance of security institutions. Human security concerns are similar in all three communities, but their different ranking shows the different priorities of the three communities. Another important finding is that the Serbian community living in North Kosovo has different security perceptions from the rest of Kosovo's population. The paper written by Isidora Stakic presents comparatively citizens' views of their personal safety and security at the local level, as surveyed in Albania, Kosovo and Serbia in October 2013. The survey was conducted using the same questionnaire in all three communities, taking a representative sample of citizens. In Serbia, 1200 citizens were interviewed, including a sub-sample of 200 citizens in Southern Serbia (the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja). The survey in Kosovo encompassed 1119 respondents, including 100 ethnic Serbs residing in North Kosovo. In Albania, 1100 citizens were interviewed. The analysis is complemented by data from 2014 and 2015 in order to show the trends in citizens' perceptions of personal safety and local security. The publication is a part of the joint initiative "Security Research Forum Belgrade-Prishtina-Tirana", run by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS) and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) from Tirana. Details: Belgrade : Belgrade Centre for Security Policy ; Prishtina : Kosovar Center for Security Studies ; Tirana : Institute for Democrarcy and Mediation, 2016 (Beograd : Unagraf, 2016. 13p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 18, 2017 at: http://www.bezbednost.org/upload/document/perceptions_of_personal_safety_in_serbia_kosovo_an.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Europe URL: http://www.bezbednost.org/upload/document/perceptions_of_personal_safety_in_serbia_kosovo_an.pdf Shelf Number: 147381 Keywords: Fear of CrimePersonal SecurityPublic Opinion |
Author: Perkins, Chloe Title: Personal security alarms for the prevention of assaults on healthcare workers: A systematic review Summary: The Crime Survey of England and Wales (2014-2015) found health and social care associate professionals to be the occupational group most at risk of violence after those working in protective services, such as police officers. Over six per cent of health and social care professionals, which include most nurses, suffered one or more incident of violence at work in 2015-6. Personal security alarms comprise one measure to try to reduce violence against healthcare staff. A 2003 report from the National Audit Office identified a variety of security measures in place across NHS trusts. Panic alarm systems were used in 85% of trusts and were therefore, selected as the focus of this review. A Health & Safety Commission report outlined three types of alarm system all of which would be eligible for inclusion in the review: Panic button systems are part of an internal alert system, which often comprise hardwired buttons placed in locations where there is a high risk of violence or linked portable attack devices. Their activation triggers an alarm on a monitoring console. Personal security alarms range from simple 'shriek' devices, designed to shock or disorientate an attacker to give victims time to get away, to a component in a monitored system (as above). Complex personal alarm systems include personal alarms linked to fixed detection systems e.g. by radio or infra-red. Components may include panic buttons (linked to switch board and/or police) and portable personal devices (linked to central system with location information). Alarms are seldom the sole means used to try to prevent violence against staff in healthcare settings. The contexts in which alarms are employed differ widely in terms, for example, of the other violence prevention methods in use, clinical specialism, whether lone working is a factor, and the population served. This review targeted all studies that examined the use of any personal alarm interventions that were implemented to address the risks of violence and assault. The focus was primarily on studies relevant to NHS or healthcare setting, although evaluations of alarms used in other occupational settings were not excluded. Details: London: UCL Department of Security and Crime Science, 2018? 41p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 15, 2018 at: http://whatworks.college.police.uk/Research/Systematic_Review_Series/Pages/Personal-security.aspx Year: 2018 Country: International URL: http://whatworks.college.police.uk/Research/Systematic_Review_Series/Pages/Personal-security.aspx Shelf Number: 149480 Keywords: Assaults Healthcare Workers Personal SecuritySecurity Alarms |