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.

A special edition of Criminology and Criminal Justice examined the impact of financial austerity on contemporary policing and the articles below develop many of the debates explored in this chapter:

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

Reiner, R. (2013) ‘Who Governs? Democracy, Plutocracy, Science and Prophecy in Policing’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 161-180.

Hough, M. (2013) ‘Procedural Justice and Professional Policing in Times of Austerity’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 181-197.

The consequences of insecurity in the urban environment generates demands on policing, the context of these trends is outlined in:

Sparks, R., Girling, E. and Loader, I. (2001) ‘Fear and Everyday Urban Lives’, Urban Studies, 38(5-6): 885-898.