Concluding Comments and a Model for Doing Security

Abstract

This book has sought to identify the weaknesses in the delivery of security and to set out a model for a more effective means of doing security. In doing so it should have stimulated new thinking about security and provided new insights on how security can be best delivered in society. In this final chapter some of the key findings from this book will be revisited, and it will seek to draw together the various reforms advocated throughout Part III to create a model for doing security. It will also set out an agenda of issues that require further research. We will end with a consideration of the final — and increasingly neglected — aspect of doing security, tackling social decay. Before we embark upon this, however, it would be useful to remind ourselves of the theoretical context in which this book has been pursued.