Journal Articles

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.

The impacts of security patrols on public perceptions and expectations are analysed in:

Crawford, A. and Lister, S. (2006) ‘Additional Security Patrols in Residential Areas: Notes from the Marketplace’, Policing and Society, 16(4): 164-188.

The development of ‘user-pays’ policing – where public police charge for services – is analysed in:

Ayling, J. and Shearing, C. (2008) ‘Taking Care of Business – Public Police as Commercial Security Vendors’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8: 27-50.

The regulation of private policing across Europe is reviewed in:

Button, M. (2007) ‘Assessing the Regulation of Private Security across Europe’, European Journal of Criminology, 4: 109-128.

Theoretical debates relating to the development of plural policing and the changing nature of the state are identified and reviewed in:

Crawford, A. (2006) ‘Networked Governance and the Post-Regulatory State? Steering, Rowing and Anchoring the Provision of Policing and Security’, Theoretical Criminology, 10: 449-479.