Security and Loss Prevention, Fourth Edition: An Introduction

Philip P. Purpura has been a criminal justice educator for more than 20 years. He has directed criminal justice, security, and paralegal programs, and has practical experience as a security consultant, expert witness, security manager, corporate investigator, and police officer. Philip P. Purpura, CPP, is a college educator, consultant, expert witness, and writer. He began his security career in New York City and held management and proprietary and contract investigative positions. He also worked with a public police agency. Mr. Purpura is the author of three other security textbooks: Retail Security and Shrinkage Protection (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993), Modern Security and Loss Prevention Management (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1989), and The Security Handbook (Delmar, 1991). He has also written Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997), and numerous articles in journals, magazines, and newsletters. He served as a contributing editor to three security periodicals. Mr. Purpura holds bachelor's and master's degrees in criminal justice from the University of Dayton and Eastern Kentucky University, respectively. He also studied in several foreign countries. He serves on the American Society for Industrial Security Standing Committee on Academic Programs. Presently, he is Director of the Security Training Institute and Resource Center and coordinator of the Church Security Project in South Carolina.Philip Purpura CPP Florence Darlington Technical College is the author of 'Security and Loss Prevention, Fourth Edition: An Introduction', published 2002 under ISBN 9780750674379 and ISBN 0750674377.