Cordner, G., Maguire, E. & Shearing, C. Eds. 2021. [special issue]. Special Issue in honor of David Bayley – Police and Policing: Comparative Perspectives on Reform. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.
Holley, C., Kennedy , A., Mutongwizo, T. & Shearing, C. Eds. 2019. [special issue]. Governing Energy Transitions: Unconventional Gas, Renewables and their Environmental Nexus. Environmental and Planning Law Journal.
Amicelle, A., Côté-Boucher, K., Dupont, B., Mulone, M., Shearing, C. & Tanner, S. Eds. 2017. [special issue]. Criminology in the Face of Flows: Reflections on Contemporary Policing and Security. Global Crime.
Harrington, C., Lecavalier, E. & Shearing, C. Eds. 2017. [special issue]. Lessons of the Anthropocene: Entanglements and Security. Crime, Law & Social Change: An International Journal.
Johnston, L. & Shearing, C. Eds. 2009. Special Anniversary Issue [special issue]. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 10(5&6).
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. Eds. 2007. Re-shaping Policing: Ideas in Action [special issue]. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 8(2).
Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. Eds. 2005. Reforming Police-An International Perspective [special issue]. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(2).
Marks, M. & Shearing, C. 2005. Eds. Special Focus on Policy Conundrums in Policing. South African Review of Sociology, 36(2).
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. Eds. 2004. Special Focus on Policing in Transition: Multi-Agency [special issue]. Society in Transition, 35(2).
Shearing, C., Dupont, B., & Ferret, J. Eds. 2004. On the Governance of Security: A Dialogue [special issue]. Policing and Society, 14(1).