Widen your reading with these suggested journal articles. Links have been provided for SAGE journal articles, enabling you to access for free. You may have access to non-SAGE journal articles via your university library.

Brodeur’s article identified an important distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ policing: the former being that associated with the development and protection of nation states and the latter with law enforcement, crime investigation and public safety:

Brodeur, J.P. (1983) ‘High and Low Policing: Remarks about the Policing of Political Activities’, Social Problems, 3: 507-520.

Loader outlined the social, political and cultural significance of policing and emphasised the importance of understanding the broader dimensions of police work:

Loader, I. (1997) ‘Policing and the Social: Questions of Symbolic Power’, British Journal of Sociology, 48(1): 1-18.

In an article that considers the impact of financial austerity on British policing, Millie reviewed the distinction between narrow and broad approaches to the police mandate and argued that there might be advantages to a relatively narrow definition:

Millie, A. (2013) ‘The Policing Task and the Expansion (and Contraction) of British Policing’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 143-160.

Zedner considered claims that policing is entering a new era in the context of the historical development of the service, and suggested that emerging patterns have longer precedents than is often recognised:

Zedner, L. (2006) ‘Policing before and after the Police – The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Crime Control’, British Journal of Criminology, 46: 78-96.