Ricerc@Sapienza

How, where, and when do subjects and citizens come into being to make demands and reassert themselves in the formation of modern India? This is the key question for the essays in this book. In unique ways, the authors enquire into the formation of subjects and citizens within the frame of law and negotiation for rights, from the perspective of practice. The question is simple in the abstract. Rights are prescribed by law.

The assessment of the perceived risk by people is extremely important for security management. Each person relies on other people's opinion to make a choice and the Internet is where these opinions are mostly researched, found and reviewed. For this reason, opinion mining and sentiment analysis represents relevant fields of study. One of their most innovative applications is in the field of public security: in this case security managers can use people's expressed perceptions to discover unforeseen and potential weak points.

The last twenty years have brought numerous enhancements in technologies for Critical Infrastructure Protection, but risk assessment still represents a significant challenge to be addressed, as threats strongly depend on human action. This paper presents a novel model for addressing threats and security analysis, based on fundamental concepts of Game theory, basing it only from intelligent and rational decisionmakers, without any other definition. The framework aims to identify preferred strategies of the attacker's action and to measure the propensity to perpetrate an attack.

Physical security risk analysis represents a fundamental tool to evaluate the threats regarding an organization and it can be divided into distinct groups, represented by: qualitative, semi-quantitative, quantitative, and mixed. The method of analysis is very important because it also allows to measure the increase in the level of security following the improvements of planned activities to step-up the levels of protection of a given site.

Book review. The essays of the volume are organised in four clusters which explore the relationship of law with convention, violence, inscription and fiscalism.