Clifford Shearing undertook graduate work as a sociologist. This background has enabled him to bring a sociological lens to criminological and regulatory arenas.
Clifford’s work has focused on the production of safety and security, and on developments that have transformed the ways in which security governance (understood as the shaping of the flow of events) has been, and is being, authorised and provided.
In his applied work, he has used understandings of security governance to enhance the quality (both effectiveness and justice) of security governance, with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities. This work has been undertaken in a variety of global context and has often been done in the context of Commissions.
Shearing’s current work is focused on shifts in earth systems (for example climate change and biodiversity) and developments in cyberspace and, most recently, artificial intelligence — for example, the increasing frequency and ferocity of environmental harms, cyberattacks and the impacts of energy development on the earth system.
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