Abstract
Today, airports have a rigorous security focus on operational consistency from legislative and policy mandates being a priority rather than allowing airport operators satisfactory autonomy to adapt policy to their requirements (Poole in World Custom J, 3(2), 2009). Poole and Passantino (2003) stated that there is a tendency to try to treat all passengers the same, which can mean resources are not allocated to areas of greater risk. Resources are diverted to better technology and reducing staffing to process large numbers of passengers. Despite technological changes there are concerns security at airports can often focus on ethnic minority passengers. This study critically discusses the effects of security changes since 9/11 at UK airports on young passengers particularly the use of full-body scanning on ethnic minorities. In the study (n-709) respondents aged 18–30 years old were surveyed to consider their attitudes towards security at airports and in particularly their opinion of profiling passengers and the use of full-body scanning. This study demonstrated a high degree of support for security but a significant difference between how white and non-white respondents perceive airport security towards ethnicity.
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Wood, S., Raj, R. The impact of security scanners at airports and ethnic minority travellers’ experience. Secur J 34, 278–298 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-019-00222-5
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