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dc.contributor.advisorWilkinson, Paul A.
dc.contributor.authorHill, Robin Edward
dc.coverage.spatial319 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-10T09:51:58Z
dc.date.available2018-07-10T09:51:58Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15165
dc.description.abstractCrimes of violence involving civil aviation interests and airline passengers have developed and diversified since their original perpetration in the 1930s. Intergovernmental cooperative efforts to suppress the offences have largely been based upon international legal, administrative activities, with the intention of producing a near-global, standardised regime of norms concerning the apprehension, extradition, prosecution and punishment of persons responsible for acts of aviation hijacking, sabotage and airport attack. While the suppressive dualities of the regime have been demonstrated in terms of common air crimes, the internationally recognised norms have had little effect in countering the act ions of fanatical offenders motivated by political aims. While concentrating upon law-based policy options premised on the notion of deterrence, governments have failed fully to recognise a pressing need for preventive activities to be improved as a principal component of crime suppression machinery. With terrorist weaponry and abilities becoming increasingly sophisticated, with most available aviation security staff and apparatus being unreliable in processes of detection and with the civil aviation market expanding rapidly, imprecise and unenforced state-imposed standards of aviation security require radical and global upgrading - an expensive and politically difficult option for most governments to consider. Proposals for intergovernmental security development schemes need urgent consideration, with passenger-financed options offering some practical solutions to otherwise potentially insoluble problems. Ultimately, prospects of advancement must depend upon the political will of major governments, which continue to regard the integrity of aviation security systems as a low priority for global standardisation.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subject.lccHV6431.A8H5
dc.subject.lcshTerrorismen
dc.titleProblems of international cooperation to improve standards of aviation security with reference to the passengeren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorInternational Foundation of Airlines Passengers Associations (IFAPA)en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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