Olympic rings of steel: Constructing security for 2012 and beyond

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 36-54

  Fussey, Pete ^a   Coaffee, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203827475     Document Type: Chapter

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