Eakin, H., & Shearing, C. 2025. Emergent Polycentric Governance in Response to Drought: Motivations, Transaction Costs, and Feedback in Corporate and City Collaboration”. Environmental Policy and Governance. http://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2141
De Sisto, M., Shearing, C., Sanderson, D, & Heffernan, T. 2025. Reshaping Disaster Management: An Integrated Community-Led Approach. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12668
Sanderson, D., Hefferman, T., Shearing, C., and de Sisto, M. 2025 Community-centred disaster recovery: A call to change the narrative. Disasters. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12655
Hefferman, T., Shearing, C., Sanderson, D., 2024 ‘Building age-inclusive disaster risk reduction: Insights among geographically mobile youth in regional Australia’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104813
Hefferman, T, Shearing, S, Sanderson, D and De Sisto, 2024 ‘Building cross-sector recovery collaborations after Australian bushfires: The importance of embracing and linking diverse capitals and capacities’, Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2368498
Blaustein, J., Shearing, C., & Miccelli, M. (2024). Adaptive policing for a climate crisis. Policing and Society, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2362713
Hefferman. T., Stewart, K., Shearing , C., Sanderson, D. 2024 Flipping the script: young people mobilise adults to increase participation in disaster risk reduction Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 39(1, January): 41-46 https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-january-2024-flipping-the-script-young-people-mobilise-adults-to-increase-participation-in-disaster-risk-reduction
Berg, J., & Shearing, C., 2024. ‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private Urban Security Governance Responses to New Harmscapes. Urban Studies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980241231240
Eakin, H., Hamann, R., Ziervogel, G. & Shearing, C. 2023. Shocks to critical provisioning systems and governance innovation: Emergent responses to COVID-19 and drought in Cape Town, South Africa. NPI Urban Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00123-y
Dupont, B., Shearing, C., Leukfeldt, E.R. & Bernier,M. 2023. The Tensions of Cyber-Resilience: From Sensemaking to Practice. Computers and Security. 132 (September): 1-17. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4224537
Holley, C., Kennedy, A. & Shearing, C. 2023. Power, conflict, and energy law: learning from unconventional natural gas, non-state actors, industry, and government. Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law. 18(1): 1-34.
van Dijk, A., Cordner, G. & Shearing, C. 2022. Policing the pandemic: public health, law enforcement, and the use of force. Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being. 7(2), 67-74.
https://doi.org/10.35502/jcswb.246
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2021. Criminology: Some Lines of Flight. Journal of Criminology. 54(1): 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076211014569
Cordner, G., Maguire, E. & Shearing, C. 2021. Policing, Politics and Democracy: David Bayley’s Enduring Contributions. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Special Issue in honor of David Bayley – Police and Policing: Comparative Perspectives on Reform. DOI: 10.1080/01924036.2021.1916972
Simpson, N., Rabenold, C., Sowman, M., & Shearing, C. 2021. Adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: A case study from Tanzania. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Volume 141, May, 110793
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110793
Berg, J & Shearing, C. 2020. Private Security’s Accountabilities within Polycentric Assemblages. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2020.1788959
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2020. David Bayley – 1933-2020: A personal tribute. Policing & Society. 30(4): 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1779271
Shearing, C. 2020. Citizens and Denizens. The International Journal of Restorative Justice. 3(1): 57-62. https://doi.org/10.5553/IJRJ/258908912020003001967
Simpson, N.P., Shearing, C.D. & Dupont, B. 2020. ‘Partial functional redundancy’: An expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk. Climate Risk Management. 28:100216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100216
Simpson, N.P., Shearing, C.D. & Dupont , B. 2020. Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security, Society & Natural Resources, 33:8, 1041-1049, https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1712756
Simpson, N.P., Shearing, C.D. & Dupont, B., 2020. When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town. Climate and Development, 12(2): 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1609402
Holley, C., Mutongwizo, T. & Shearing, C. 2020.Conceptualizing Policing and Security: New Harmscapes, the Anthropocene and Technology. Annual Review of Criminology, vol 3: 341-358. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-criminol-011419-041330
Hamann, R., Makaula, L., Ziervogel, G., Shearing, C. & Zhang, A. 2020. Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations build Community Resilience. Journal of Business Ethics. 161: 835–853. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y
Holley, C., Mutongwizo,T., Shearing, C. & Kennedy , A. 2019. Shaping Unconventional Gas Regulation: Industry Influence and Risks of Agency Capture in Texas, Colorado and Queensland. Environmental Planning and Law Journal. 36: 510-530.
Holley, C., Kennedy , A., Mutongwizo, T. & Shearing, C. 2019. Governing Energy Transitions: Unconventional Gas, Renewables and their Environmental Nexus. Environmental and Planning Law Journal. 36: 427-436.
Simpson, N., Shearing, C. & Dupont, B. 2019. Climate Gating: A Case Study of Emerging Responses to Secure Resilience. Climate Risk Management, 26: 100196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2019.100196
Simpson, N., Simpson, K., Shearing, C. & Cirolia, L.R. 2019. Municipal Finance and Resilience Lessons for Urban Infrastructure Management: A Case Study from the Cape Town Drought. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (TJUE), 11(3): 257-276.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2019.1642203
Mutongwizo, T., Holley, C., Shearing, C. & Simpson, N.P. 2019. Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paz033
Holley, C., Shearing, C., Harrington, C., Kennedy, A. & Mutongwizo, T. 2018. Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology and International Relations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 14 (1): 185-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-030945
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2018. Governing-through-Harm and Public Goods Policing. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 679: 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716218778540
Amicelle, A., Côté-Boucher, K., Dupont, B., Mulone, M., Shearing, C. & Tanner, S. 2017. Criminology in the Face of Flows: Reflections on Contemporary Policing and Security. Global Crime. 18(3): 165-175. DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2017.1350427
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2017. Energy and the Anthropocene: Security Challenges and Solutions. Lessons of the Anthropocene: Entanglements and Security. Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal. 68:515–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9700-8
Harrington, C., Lecavalier, E. & Shearing, C. 2017. From Passengers to Crew: Introductory Reflections. Lessons of the Anthropocene: Entanglements and Security. Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal. 68, 493–498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9698-y
Jensen, T.O., Shearing, C., Skauge, T. & Persson, A. 2016. Energy Civilization through Industrial Modernity and Beyond. Euro-Asian Journal of Sustainable Energy Development Policy, 5(1): 21-44.
Shearing, C. 2016. Reflections on the Nature of Policing and its Development. Police Practice & Research, 17(1): 84-91.
Honig, M., Petersen, S., Shearing, C., Pintér, L. & Kotze, I. 2015. An investigation of the conditions under which farmers are likely to reshape their practices: Private land conservation in the Cape Winelands, South Africa, a case study. Land Use Policy, 48: 389-400.
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. 2015. Privatisation, Pluralisation and the Globalisation of Policing. Research Focus, 3(1): 1-8.
Petersen, S., Shearing, C. & Nel, D. 2015. Sustainability Transitions: An Investigation of the Conditions under Which Corporations Are Likely To Reshape Their Practices to Reverse Environmental Degradation. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, 4(1): 85-105.
Shearing, C. 2015. Criminology and the Anthropocene. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15(3): 255-269.
Honig, M., Petersen, S., Herbstein, T., Roux, S., Nel, D. & Shearing, C. 2015. A Conceptual Framework to Enable the Changes Required for a One-planet Future. Environmental Values, 24(5): 663-688.
Pasquini, L., Ziervogel, G., Cowling, R.M. & Shearing, C. 2015. What Enables Local Governments to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation? Lessons Learned from Two Municipal Case Studies in the Western Cape, South Africa. Climate and Development. Climate and Development, 7(1): 60-70.
Froestad, J., Grimwood, S., Herbstein, T. & Shearing, C. 2015. Policy Design and Nodal Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Environmental Policy Change in a South African City. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research & Practice, 17(2): 174-191.
Van der Spuy, E. & Shearing, C. 2014. Curbing the Killing Fields: Making South Africa Safer. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 652(1): 186-205.
Pasquini, L. & Shearing, C. 2014. Municipalities, Politics, and Climate Change: An Example of the Process of Institutionalizing an Environmental Agenda within Local Government. Journal of Environment and Development, 23(2):271-296.
Van Steden, R., Wood, J., Shearing, C. & Boutellier, H. 2013. The Many Faces of Nodal Policing: Team Play and Improvisation in Dutch Community Safety. Security Journal [online]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sj.2013.30.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2013. Meditative Reflections on Nils Christie’s ‘Words on Words’ through an African Lens. Restorative Justice Journal: An International Journal, 1(1): 31-46.
Herbstein, Tom; Froestad, Jan; Nel, Deon; Shearing, Clifford (2013). Insurance, Climate Risk and the Barriers to Change. In R. Börzel, Tanja A.; Hamann (Ed.), Business and Climate Change Governance (pp. 156–172). Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/in/book/978113730273
Nel, D., Shearing, C. & Reyers, B. 2011. Insurers could help address climate risks. Nature, 476 (7358): 33.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2011.The Practice of Crime Prevention: Design Principles for More Effective Security Governance. SA Crime Quarterly, 36:23-30.
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. 2011. Being a New Police in the Liquid 21st Century. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 5(2): 1-9.
Shearing, C. 2011. Re-considering the Field of Policing: A Review of The Policing Web. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 53(3): 325-342.
Bradlow, B., Bolnick, J. & Shearing, C. 2011. Housing, Institutions, Money: The Failures and Promise of Human Settlements Policy and Practice in South Africa. Environment and Urbanisation, 23(1): 267-275.
Wood, J., Shearing, C. & Froestad, J. 2011. Restorative Justice and Nodal Governance. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 35(1):1-18.
Shearing, C. & Johnston, L. 2010. Nodal Wars and Network Fallacies: A Genealogical Analysis of Global Insecurities. Theoretical Criminology, 14(4): 1-20.
Shearing, C. 2010. Introduction to the Series. Police Practice & Research, 11(5): 451-453.
Feltes, T. & Shearing, C. 2009. E-Learning Crossing Borders: Policing (all around) the World. The Criminologist, 34(4): 15-16.
Wood, J. & Shearing, C. 2009. De Nodale Politiefunctie (Being a Nodal Police). Justitiële verkenningen (Judicial Explorations). Nodal Governance en Veiligheidszorg, 35(1): 11-28.
Johnston, L. & Shearing, C. 2009. From a ‘Dialogue of the Deaf’ to a ‘Dialogue of Listening’: Towards a new Methodology of Policing Research and Practice. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 10(5&6): 415-422.
Marks, M., Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2009. Who Should the Police Be? Finding a New Narrative for Community Policing in South Africa. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. 10(2): 145-155.
Shearing, C. 2008. Making South Africa Safe: Possibilities and Prospects. Acta Criminologica, CRIMSA Conference Special Edition, 1: 1-11.
Burris, S., Kempa, M. & Shearing, C. 2008. Changes in Governance: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Current Scholarship. Akron Law Review, 4(1): 1-66.
Ayling, J. & Shearing, C. 2008. Taking Care of Business: Public Police as Commercial Security Vendors. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8(1): 27-50.
Shearing, C. & Foster, D. 2007. Back to the Future in South African Security: From Intentions to Effective Mechanisms. Acta Juridica, 16: 156-170.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2007. From the Guest Editors: Re-shaping policing: Ideas in Action. Police Practice and Research, 8(2): 99-106.
Gunningham, N., Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2007. Neighbourhood Environmental Improvement Plans: Community Empowerment, Voluntary Collaboration and Legislative Design. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 24(2): 125-151.
Shearing, C. 2005. Nodal Security. Police Quarterly, 8: 57-63.
Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. 2005. Reforming Police-Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(2): 167-180.
Brodeur, J.P. & Shearing, C. 2005. Configuring Security and Justice. European Journal of Criminology, 2(4): 379-406.
Burris, S., Drahos, P. & Shearing, C. 2005. Nodal Governance. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 30: 30-58.
Shearing, C. 2005. Die Politische Produktion von Sicherheit. Kriminologisches Journal, 37(2): 82-92.
Marks, M. & Shearing, C. 2005. Reconceptualizing reform practice in South African policing. South African Review of Sociology, 36(2): 131-140.
Shearing, C. & Johnston, L. 2005. Justice in the Risk Society. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(1): 25-38.
Shearing, C. & Kempa, M. 2004. A Museum of Hope: A Story of Robben Island. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 592: 62-78.
Cartwright, J. & Shearing, C. 2004. Building Peace in the Cape. Safer Society: The Journal of Crime Reduction and Community Safety, 23: 20-22.
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. 2004. Diversity in Policing: Multi-agency Frameworks and Strategies. Society in Transition, 35(2): 197-203.
Shearing, C. 2004. Thoughts on Sovereignty. Policing and Society, 14: 5-12.
Dupont, B., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 2004. The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing States. Criminal Justice: An International Journal of Policy and Practice, 3(4): 331-349.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2003. Governing Security for Common Goods. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 31(3): 205-225.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2003. Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New ‘Denizens’’. Journal of Law and Society, 30(3): 400-419.
Shearing, C., Jenneker, M. & Cartwright, J. 2001. Securite gouvernance et communautes marginales. Quartiers sensibles ici et ailleurs, Les Cahiers de La Securite Interieure, 49: 79-98.
Kempa, M. & Shearing, C. 2002. Microscopic and Macroscopic Responses to Inequalities in the Governance of Security: Respective Experiments in South Africa and Northern Ireland. Special Issue on Transitions of Crime and Policing, Transformations, 49: 25-54.
Aral, S., Burris, S. & Shearing, C. 2002. Health and the Governance of Security: A Tale of Two Systems. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 30: 632-643.
Shearing, C. 2001. A Nodal Conception of Governance: Thoughts on a Police Commission. Policing and Society. (Special Issue on Policing in Northern Ireland), 11(3-4): 259-272.
Shearing, C. 2001. Punishment and the Changing Face of Governance. Punishment and Society. 3(2): 203-220.
Shearing, C. & Kempa, M. 2000. Rethinking the Governance of Security in Transitional Democracies. Nigerian Law Enforcement Review, 33-37.
Shearing, C. 2000. A New Beginning’ for Policing. Journal of Law and Society, 27(3): 386-393.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2000. Reflections on the Governance of Security, a Normative Inquiry. Police Practice: An International Journal, 1(4): 457-476.
Shearing, C. 1999. Zero Tolerance. Criminal Law Bulletin, 35(August): 378-83.
Kempa, M., Carrier, R., Wood., J. & Shearing, C. 1999. Reflections on the Evolution of the Concept of ‘Private Policing’. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 7: 197-223.
Wood, J. & Shearing, C. 1999. Reinventing Intellectuals. Canadian Journal of Criminology. (Special Issue on Research: Policy, Models and Issues), 41(2): 311-320.
Wood., J. & Shearing, C. 1998. Securing Safety on Campus: A Case Study. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 40(1): 81-95.
Shaw, M. & Shearing, C. 1997. Reshaping Security: An Examination of the Governance of Security in South Africa. African Security Review, 7(3): 3-12.
O’Malley, P., Weir, L., & Shearing, C. 1997. Governmentality, Criticism, Politics. Economy and Society, 26(4): 501-517.
Bayley, D. & Shearing, C. 1996. The Future of Policing. Law and Society Review, 30(3): 585-606.
Shearing, C. 1995. Transforming the Culture of Policing: Thoughts from South Africa. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (special issue), 54-61.
Shearing, C. 1994. Participatory Policing: Modalities in Lay Participation. Imbizo, 1(2): 5-10.
Shearing, C. 1994. Transformations of Governance: The Case of Community Policing. Sash, 37(1):21.
Shearing, C. 1994. Sécurité privée et technologies en Amérique du Nord. Securite et Technologies. Paris: IHESI.
Shearing, C. 1994. Reinventing Policing: Policing as Governance. Imbizo, 1(1): 285-308.
Shearing, C. 1992. Changing Police Culture: The Bottom-Up View. Platypus, 36: 15-16.
Shearing, C. & Ericson, R. V. 1991. Culture as Figurative Action. British Journal of Sociology, 42(4): 481-506.
Shearing, C. 1991. La Recherche d’une Police Communautaire: L’histoire d’un Grand Ensemble de Toronto. Déviance et Société, 15(3): 353-359.
Shearing, C. 1991. Policing the Transformation. Work in Progress, 79:22.
Shearing, C. 1991. Police and Government: The Quest for Impartial Policing. Work in Progress, 78:17-19.
Shearing, C. 1991. Policing the Police: the Ombudsman Solution. Indicator SA: Political Monitor. 8(4):11-14.
Shearing, C. 1990. Re-ordering Thoughts: A Reply to Alan Hunt. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 32(4):659-660.
Shearing, C. 1989. Decriminalizing Criminology: Reflections on the Literal and Tropological Meaning of the Term. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 31(2): 169-178.
Petrunik, M.G. & Shearing, C. 1988. The ‘I,’ the ‘Me,’ and the ‘It’: Moving Beyond the Meadian Conception of Self. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 13(4): 435-448.
Shearing, C. 1986. Policing South Africa: Reflections on Botha’s Reforms. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 11(3): 293-307.
Shearing, C., Stenning, P. & Addario, S. 1985. Police Perceptions of Private Security. The Canadian Police College Journal, 9(2): 127-153.
Shearing, C., Stenning, P. & Addario, S. 1985. Public Perceptions of Private Security. The Canadian Police College Journal, 9(3): 225-253. (In French in the same issue: Comment le public perçoit la sécurité privée: 141-167.)
Shearing, C., Stenning, P. & Addario, S. 1985. Corporate Perceptions of Private Security. The Canadian Police College Journal, 9(4): 367-390. (In French in the same issue: Comment l’entreprise perçoit sécurité privée, 401-425.)
Stenning, R. & Shearing, C. 1984. Corporate Justice: Some Preliminary Thoughts. The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 17(2): 79-86.
Petrunik, M & Shearing, C. 1983. Fragile facades: Stuttering and the Strategic Manipulation of Awareness. Social Problems, 31(2): 125-138.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 1983. Private Security: Implications for Social Control. Social Problems, 30(5): 493-506.
Feuerverger, A. & Shearing, C. 1982. An Analysis of the Prosecution of Shoplifters. Criminology, 20(2): 273-289.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1981. Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications. Crime & Justice, 3 :193-245.
Shearing, C. 1980. Subterranean Processes in the Maintenance of Power: an Examination of the Mechanisms Co-ordinating Police Action. The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 18(3): 283-298.
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. 1980. The Quiet Revolution: The Nature, Development and General Legal Implications of Private Policing in Canada. Criminal Law Quarterly, 22: 220-248.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1979. Private Security and Private Justice: Doing Justice to Justice. British Journal of Law and Society, 6(2): 261-271.
Shearing, C. 1978. Private Security in Canada: Size; Private Security in Canada: Growth and Expenditure; Private Security in Canada: the People. Resources Protection, 7(5): 6,36.
Shearing, C. & Leon, S.J. 1976. Reconsidering the Police Role: a Challenge to a Challenge of a Popular Conception. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections, (4): 331-345.
Shearing, C. 1973. Towards a Phenomenological Sociology or Towards a Solution to the Parsonian Puzzle. Catalyst, 7: 9-14. Shearing, C. 1973. How to Make Theories Untestable: A Guide to Theorists. The American Sociologist, 8(7): 33-37.
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