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.

Chan identified the impact on technology on police work, both in organisational terms and in relation to the culture of policing:

Chan, J. (2001) ‘The Technological Game: How Information Technology Is Transforming Police Practice’, Criminal Justice, 1: 139-159.

Barnard-Wills and Wells provide a useful overview of contemporary debates about surveillance in policing in their introduction to a special edition of a journal containing a range of useful articles:

Barnard-Wills, G. and Wells, H. (2012) ‘Surveillance, Technology and the Everyday’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 12: 227-237.

A fascinating insight into ways in which officers respond to being filmed on duty by members of the public:

Sandhu, A. and Haggerty, K. (2016) ‘Policing on Camera’, Theoretical Criminology, 21: 78-95.

The practical and political implications of crime mapping are explored in:

Ratcliffe, J. (2002) ‘Damned if You Don’t, Damned if Your Do: Crime Mapping and Its Implications in the Real World’, Policing and Society, 12: 211-225.