Airport Terminal Security Screenings

Author(s): Matthias Leese, Michael Nagenborg
Editor(s): Bruce A. Arrigo
Book Title: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy
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Publisher(s): SAGE Publications
Publication Year: 2018

Security screenings at airport terminals are an important and visible part of aviation security. This chapter examines the security screenings that passengers undergo at airports. More specifically, this includes the spatial setups, policy regulations, technologies, and social relations that define the screening checkpoint, and which have made airport security one of global travel’s most controversial issues.

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