Cordner, G. & Shearing, C. Forthcoming. Darrel Stephens: An American Police Leader with Vision. In: Das, D. & Verma, A. Eds. Police Leaders as Thinkers. Springer.
Mutongwizo, T., Blaustein, J., & Shearing, C.D. Forthcoming. 2022. Resilience policing and climate change: Adaptive responses to hydrological emergencies. In Wright, M., and Cordner, G. Eds. Routledge Handbook of Policing Within a Crisis.
Blaustein, J., Mutongwizo, T. & Shearing, C.2022. Going Nodal: Multi-sited Policing Ethnography. In Charman, S. & Fleming, J. Eds. Handbook of Police Ethnography. Routledge.
Shearing, C., Smith, E. & Walters, J. 2022. The Anthropocene and Criminological theory. In: Harkness, A., Peterson, J., Bowden, M., Pedersen, C. & Donnermeyer, J., Eds. Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol University Press.
Wood, J., Burris, S., & Shearing, C. 2022. From Incrementalism to Radical Restructuring: A Preface. In: Bartkowiak-Theron, I., Clover, J., Martin, D., Southly, B. & Croft, N., Eds. Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing. Springer.
Holley, C., Phelan, L. & Shearing, C. 2021. Dark Clouds: Regulatory Possibilities. In: Holley, C. & Shearing, C. Eds. Criminology and Climate: Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes (In the Series Criminology at the Edge, Eds. Leclerc, B., Homel, R. and Shearing, C.). Routledge.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2021. Polycentric Security Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South. In: Blaustein, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & Pino, N. Eds. The Emerald Handbook on Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development .153.
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. 2020. Global Development in Policing Provision in the 21 Century. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology. Oxford University Press.
Perkins, G., Howell, S. & Shearing, C. 2020. The Spectre of Trauma in the South African Police Service. In: McDaniel, J., Moss, K., & Pease, K. Eds. Policing and Mental Health: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice series. CRC Press.
Phelan, L., Holley, C., Shearing, C. & du Toit, L. 2020. Insurance and Climate Change. In: Brisman, A. & South, N. Eds. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge.
Holley, C., Kennedy, A., Mutongwizo, T & Shearing, C. 2020. Public Servants and Regulator Capture in Energy and Environmental Governance. In. Sullivan, H & Dickinson, H. Eds. The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan.
Holley, C., Kennedy, A., Mutongwizo, T & Shearing, C. 2020. Public Servants and Regulator Capture in Energy and Environmental Governance. In. Sullivan, H & Dickinson, H. Eds. The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan.
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. 2018. Challenges and the Ideas of Governing Plural Policing Provision. In: Den Boer, M. Ed.Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective. Edward Elgar Handbook.
Froestad, J., Nøkleberg, M., Shearing, C. & Trollip, H. 2018. South Africa’s Minerals-‐ Energy-‐Complex: Flows, regulation, governance and policing. In: Omorogbe, Y. & Ordor, A. Eds. Ending Africa’s Energy Deficit and the Law: Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa. Oxford University Press.
Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2017. Thriving on a Pale Blue Dot: Criminology and the Anthropocene. In: Holley, C. & Shearing, C. (eds) 2017. Criminology and the Anthropocene. In the Series Criminology at the Edge, Leclerc, B., B., Homel, R. and Shearing, C. (eds). Routledge.
Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2017. Nodal Governance. In: Turner, B.S. (ed) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. John Wiley & Sons.
Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2017. A Nodal Perspective of Governance: Advances in Nodal Governance Thinking. In: Drahos, P. Ed. Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. Canberra: ANU Press, 163-180
Howell, S. & Shearing, C. 2017. Prisons, Tourism and Symbolism: Reflecting (on) the Past, Present and Future of South Africa. In: Wilson, J., Hodgkinson, S., Piché. J. & Walby, K. Eds. The Handbook of Prison Tourism. Palgrave Macmillan.
Ruteere, M., Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2017. Policing, Pluralisation and Human Rights. In: Weber, L., Fishwick, E. & Marmo, M. Eds. Routledge International Handbook: Criminology and Human Rights. Routledge. 396-404.
Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2016. Policing and New Environmental Governance. In: Bradford, B., Loader, I., Steinberg, J. & Jauregui, B. Eds. The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing. SAGE, 552-572.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2016. The Privatisation of Security: Implications for Democracy. In: Abrahamsen, R. & Leander, A. Eds. Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies. Taylor & Francis/ Routledge, 140-148..
Froestad, J., Shearing, C. & Van der Merwe, M. 2015. Criminology: Re-Imagining Security and Risk. In: Bourbeau, P. Ed. Security: Dialogue across Disciplines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berg, J. with Shearing, C. 2015. New Authorities: Relating State and Non-state Security Auspices in South African Improvement Districts. In: Kyed, H. & Albrecht, P. Eds. Policing and the Politics of Order-Making. Oxon: Routledge, 91- 107.
Van der Spuy, E. & Shearing, C. 2014 Curbing the Killing Fields: Making South Africa Safer and Less Criminal. In Rotberg, R. Ed. Reconfiguring Mandela’s Legacy: South Africa’s Contested Future. Waterloo: CIGI, 237-258.
Berg, J., Nakueira, S. & Shearing, C. 2014. Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance. In: Bersot, H. & Ariigo, B. Eds. The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Routledge, 77-97.
Herbstein, T. and Froestad, J., Shearing, C. & Nel, D. 2013. Insurance, Climate Risk and the Barriers to Change. In: Börzel, T.A. & Hamann, R. Eds. Business and Climate Change Governance: South Africa in Comparative Perspective. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 156-172.
Shearing, C. 2013. Foreword. In: Nalla, M.K. & Newman, G.R. Eds. Community Policing in Indigenous Communities. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, ix-xiii.
Shearing, C. 2012. Tapestries on Policing. Foreword. In: Palmer, D., Berlin, M. & Das, D. Eds. Global Environment of Policing. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, xiii -xv.
Stenning, P. & Shearing, C. 2012. The Shifting Boundaries of Policing: Globalization and its Possibilities. In: Newburn, T. & Peay, J. Eds. Policing: Politics, Culture and Control: Essays in Honour of Robert Reiner. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 265 -284.
Froestad, J., Shearing, C., Herbstein, T. & Grimwood, S. 2012. City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater Bylaw: Barriers to Implementation. In: Cartwright, A., Parnell, S. Oelofse, G. & Ward, S. Eds. Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town. London: Earthscan, 244-262.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2011. Re-imagining Justice from the Bottom Up, In: Carnelley, M. & Hoctor, S. Eds. Law, Order and Liberty: Essays in Honour of Tony Matthews. Scottsville: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, 237-250.
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. 2011. Criminology’s Disney World: The Ethnographer’s Ride of South African Criminal Justice. In: Bosworth, M. & Hoyle, C. Eds. What is Criminology? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 125-140.
Dinnen, S., Cartwright, J., Jenneker, M., Shearing, C., Wai, I., & Maia, P. 2010. Community-building and Security: Case Studies. In: Luker, V. & Dinnen, S. Eds. Civic Insecurity Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: The Australian National University E-Press, 237-264.
Shearing, C. 2010. The Curious Case of the Patten Report. In: Doyle, J. Ed. Policing the Narrow Ground: Lessons from the Transformation of Policing in Northern Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 27-38.
Shearing, C. & Froestad, J. 2010. Nodal Governance and the Zwelethemba Model. In: Quirk, H., Seddon, T. and Smith, G. Eds. Regulation and Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policy and Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 103-133.
Cartwright, J. & Shearing, C. 2009. Introduction. In: Gould, C. Ed. Criminal (In)Justice in South Africa: A Civil Society Perspective. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 1-10.
Marks, M., Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2009. A Thin or a Thick Blue Line? Exploring Alternative Models for Community Policing and the Police Role in South Africa. In: Grabosky, P. Ed. Community Policing and Peacekeeping. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 153-168.
Hein, W., Burris, S. & Shearing, C. 2009. Conceptual Models for Global Health Governance. In: Buse, K., Hein, W. and Drager, N. Eds. Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 72-98.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2009.Reform. In: Fleming, J. and Wakefield, A. Eds. The Sage Dictionary of Policing. London: SAGE, 266-269.
Leman-Langlois, S. & Shearing, C. 2008. Transition, Forgiveness and Citizenship: The TRC and the Social Construction of Forgiveness. In: Du Bois, F. & Pedain, A. Eds. Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 206-228.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2008. Integrated Security: Assembling Knowledges and Capacities. In: Williamson, T. Ed. The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing: Current Conceptions and Future Directions. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 389-404.
Shearing, C. & Foster, D. 2007. Back to the Future in South African Security: From Intentions to Effective Mechanisms. In: Van der Spuy, E., Parmentier, S. & Dissel, E. Eds. Restorative Justice: Politics, Policies and Prospects. Cape Town: Juta Publishers. (Reprinted from Acta Juridica 2007), 156-170.
Froestad, J & Shearing, C. 2007. Beyond Restorative Justice-Zwelethemba, a future-focused model of local capacity conflict resolution. In: Mackay, R., Bošnjak, M., Deklerck, J., Pelikan, C., van Stokkom, B., & Wright, M. Eds. Images of Restorative Justice Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, 16-34.
Shearing, C. 2007. Policing our future. In: Henry, A. & Smith, D.J. Eds. Transformations of Policing. Aldershot: Ashgate, 249-272.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2007. Conflict Resolution in South Africa: a Case Study. In: Johnstone, G. & Van Ness, D. Eds. Handbook of Restorative Justice. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 534-556.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2007. The Zwelethemba Model: Practicing human rights through dispute resolution. In: Parmentier, S & Weitekamp, E. Eds. Crime and Human Rights. Volume 9 in the Series ‘Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance’, part II Human Rights and Justice. Oxford, Elsevier Press, 534-556.
Ayling, J., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 2006. Harnessing Resources for Networked Policing. In: J. Fleming, J. & Wood, J. Eds. Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing and Security Networks. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 60-86.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2006. Private Policing. In: Greene, J.R. Ed. Encyclopaedia of Police Science, 3rd Edition, 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2006. Plural Policing in South Africa: an African case. In: Jones, T. & Newburn, T. Eds. Plural Policing. London: Routledge, 190-221.
Shearing, C. 2006. Reflections on the Refusal to Acknowledge Private Governments. In: Wood, J. and Dupont, B. Eds. Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security. Cambridge University Press, 11-32.
Shearing, C., Cartwright, J. & Jenneker, M. 2006. A Grassroot governance model: African peace committees. In: V. Luker, S. Dinnen, & A. Patience (Eds). Law, order and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2005. Prática da Justiça-O Modelo Zwelethemba de Resolução de Conflitos’, in Slakmon, C., Campos Pinto De Vitto, R. & Sócrates Gomes Pinto, R. Eds. Justiica Restaurantiva. Brasília, D.F.: Ministério da Justiça do Brasil e Programa das Naçaões Unidas para o Desenvolvimento –Brasil, 79-123.
Shearing, C. 2005. Governing Security: The Age of Diversity. In: Hunter, R. & Keyes, M. Eds. Changing Law: Rights, Regulation and Reconciliation. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 37-46.
Hermer, J., Kempa, M., Stenning, P., Wood, J. & Shearing, C. 2005. Policing in Canada in the Twenty-first Century: Directions for Law Reform. In: Cooley, D. Eds. Re-imagining Policing in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 22-91.
Wood, J. & Shearing, C. 2005. Nodal Governance, Denizenship and Communal Space: Challenging the Westphalian Ideal. In: Robins, S. Ed. Limits to Liberation: Culture, Citizenship and Governance after Apartheid. Oxford: James Currey Press, 97-112.
Leman-Langlois, S. & Shearing, C. 2004. Repairing the Future: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at Work. In: Gilligan, G. & Pratt, J. Eds. Crime, Truth and Justice: Official Enquiry, Discourse, Knowledge. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 222-242.
Shearing, C. 2003. Preface. In: Wakefield, A Ed. Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space. Cullompton, UK: Willan Publishing, xvii- xviii.
Von Hirsch, A., Ashworth, A., & Shearing, C. 2003. Specifying Aims and Limits for Restorative Justice: a ‘Making Amends’ Model?. In: Von Hirsch, A., Roberts, J.V., Bottoms, A.E., Roach, K. & Schiff, M. Eds. Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 21-41.
Shearing, C. 2001. The Most Critical Unresolved Issue Associated With Contemporary Democratic Policing. In: Amir, A. & Einstein, E. Policing, Security and Democracy: Special Aspects of Democratic Policing. Huntsville, TX: Office of International Criminal Justice, 99-114.
Von Hirsch, A. & Shearing, C. 2001. Exclusion from Public Space. In: Von Hirsch, A., Garland, D. & Wakefield, A. Eds. Ethical Perspectives in Situational Crime Prevention. Oxford: Hart Pub, 77-96.
Shearing, C. 2001. Transforming Security: a South African Experiment. In: Strang, H. & Braithwaite, J. Eds. Restorative Justice and Civil Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 14-34.
Shearing, C. 2001. Local capacity policing. In: Sarkin, Jeremy Eds. Policing, Crime and Justice, Maklu. Brussels, Belgium, 191-197.
Shearing, C. 1998. Theorising-Sotto Voice. In: Holdaway, S. & Rock, P. Thinking about Criminology. London: University College London Press, 11-24.
Shearing, C. 1997. Towards Democratic Policing: Rethinking Strategies of Transformation. In: Policing in Emerging Democracies: Workshop Papers and Highlights. Washington DC: US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice and US Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 29-38.
Shearing, C. 1997. Violence and the Changing Face of Governance: Privatization and its Implication. In: Von Trotha, T. Ed. Sociologie der Gewalt. Kölner Zeitzchrift Für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 263-278.
Shearing, C. 1997. The Unrecognized Origins of the New Policing: Linkages between Public and Private Policing. In: Felson, M. & Clarke, R. Eds. Business and Crime Prevention. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, 217-229.
Shearing, C. 1997. The Reinvention of Community Policing. In: Thomas, T. Ed. The Politics of the City: a Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Nelson Canada, 67-76.
Shearing, C. 1996. Public and Private Policing. In: Saulsbury, W., Mott, J., & Newburn, T. Eds. Themes in Contemporary Policing. London: Independent Committee of Inquiry into the Role and Responsibilities of the Police, 83-95.
Shearing, C. 1996. Rethinking Security. In: Brochu, S. Ed. Perspectives Actuelles en Criminology. Montreal: International Centre for Comparative Criminology, University of Montreal, 271-281.
Shearing, C. 1995. Policing the New South Africa. In: Hanson, J. & McNish, S. Eds. The Republic of South Africa: Prospects and Problems. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies.
Shearing, C. 1995. Preface. In: Moore, D. & Forsythe, L. A New Approach to Juvenile Justice: an Evaluation of Family Conferencing in Wagga Wagga. Report to the Criminological Research Council. Wagga: Centre for Rural Social Research.
Shearing, C. 1995. Reinventing Policing: Policing as Governance. In: Sack, F., Vob, M., Frehsee, D., Funk, A. & Reinke, H. Eds. Privatisieirung Staatlicher Kontrolle: Befunde, Konzepte, Tendenze. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgellschaft, 70-87.
Shearing, C. 1994. Remaking the South African Police. In: Ncholo, P. Ed. Towards Democratic Policing. Cape Town: Esquire Press.
Shearing, C. 1994. Security as Logistics. In: Ncholo, P. Ed. Towards Democratic Policing. Cape Town: Esquire Press.
Shearing, C. 1994. The Fallacy of New Approaches to Policing. In: Ncholo, P. Ed. Towards Democratic Policing. Cape Town: Esquire Press.
Shearing, C. 1993. Alternative Forms of Policing. In: Glanz, L. Ed. Managing Crime in the New South Africa: Selected Readings. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
Shearing, C. 1991. Police Deviance and Accountability. In: Mathews, M.L., Heyman P.B. & Mathews, A.S. Eds. Policing the Conflict in South Africa. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 105-113.
Shearing, C. 1993. A Constitutive Conception of Regulation. In: Braithwaite, J. & Grabosky, P. Eds. Business Regulation and Australia’s Future. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 67-79.
Braithwaite, J., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 1993. Introduction. In: Braithwaite, J. & Grabosky, P. Eds. Business Regulation and Australia’s Future. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1-8.
Shearing, C. 1991. The Relation Between Public and Private Policing. In: Tonry, M. & Morris, N. Eds. Modern Policing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 399-434.
Gladstone, J., Ericson, R.V. & Shearing, C. 1991. Introduction. In: Gladstone, J, Ericson, R.V. & Shearing, C. Criminology: A Readers Guide. Toronto: Centre of Criminology.
Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. 1991. Policing. In: Gladstone, J., Ericson R.V. & Shearing, C.D. Eds. Criminology: A Readers Guide. Toronto: Centre of Criminology, 125-138.
Stenning, P.C., Addario, S.M., Condon, M.G. & Shearing, C. 1991. Controlling Interests: Two Conceptions of Ordering Financial Markets. In: Friedland, M.L. Ed. Securing Compliance: Seven Case Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 88-119.
Addario, S.M., Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. 1987. Behind Union Lines: the Setting of Evidentiary Boundaries. In: Lowman, J., Menzies, R.J. & Palys, T.S. Eds. Transcarceration. Aldershot, Hampshire: Gower, 153-169.
Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. 1987. Reframing Policing. In: Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. Eds. Private Policing. Newbury Park: SAGE, 9-18.
Ericson, R.V. & Shearing, C. 1986. The Scientification of Police Work. In: Bohme, G. & Stehr, N. Eds. The Knowledge Society. Sociology of Science Yearbook, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Reidel, 129-159.
Shearing, C. 1987. ‘Say ‘Cheese’!-The Disney order that is not so Mickey Mouse. In: Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. Eds. Private Policing. Newbury Park: Sage. (Abridged version of ‘From the Panopticon to Disney World: The development of discipline’).
Shearing, C. 1985. Riots. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers. (Reprinted in revised Edition, 1988), 1586-1587.
Stenning, P.C. & Shearing, C. 1985. Police. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers. (Reprinted in revised Edition, 1988), 1439-1440.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1985. Law Enforcement (Police). In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers (Reprinted in revised Edition, 1988), 987.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1985. From the Panopticon to Disney World: The development of discipline. In: Doob, A.N. & Greenspan, E.L. Eds. Perspectives in Criminal Law: Essays in Honour of John Ll. J. Edwards. Toronto: Canada Law Book, 335-349.
Shearing, C. 1984. Dial-a-Cop: A Study of Police Mobilization. In: Akers, R.L. & Sagarin, E. Eds. Prevention and Social Defence. New York: Praeger, 77-88.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1983. Private Security and its Implications: A North American perspective. In: Rees, Anthony. Ed. Policing and Private Security. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 16-44.
Shearing, C. 1983. Cops Don’t Always See it That Way. In: Fleming, T. & Visano, L. Eds. Deviant Designations: Crime, Law and Deviance in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths, 374-388.
Shearing, C. 1981. Introduction. In: Shearing, C. Eds. Organizational Police Deviance: Its Structure and Control. Toronto: Butterworths, 1-8.
Shearing, C. 1981. Deviance and Conformity in the Reproduction of Order. In: Shearing, C. Eds. Organizational Police Deviance: Its Structure and Control. Toronto: Butterworths, 29-47.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1981. Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications. In: Tonry, M. & Morris, N. Eds. Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, Vol. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 193-245.
Shearing, C. 1981. Private Security in Canada: Some Questions and Answers. In: McGrath, W.T. & Mitchell, M.P. Eds. The Police Function in Canada. Toronto: Methuen, 53-76.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P.C. 1980. Snowflakes or Good Pinches?: Private Security’s Contribution to Modern Policing. In: Donelan, Rita. Ed. The Maintenance of Order in Society. Ottawa: Canadian Police College, 96-105.
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