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.

An article by Chan provides a critical review of different strategies for accountability:

Chan, J. (1999) ‘Governing Police Practice: Limits of the New Accountability’, British Journal of Sociology, 50(2): 251-270.

The introduction of the office of Police and Crime Commissioners is analysed in a several journal articles, including:

Lister, S. (2013) ‘The New Politics of the Police: Police and Crime Commissioners and the “Operational Independence” of the Police’, Policing, 7: 239-247.

Sampson, F. (2012) ‘Hail to the Chief? How Far Does the Introduction of Elected Police Commissioners Herald a US-Style Politicization of Policing for the UK?’, Policing, 1-12.

The relationship between private security and the state and the implications that this has for the legitimacy of the sector and reviewed in White’s article:

White, A. (2013) ‘The New Political Economy of Private Security’, Theoretical Criminology, 17: 85-101.