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  1. Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought

    Article • International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  2. When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town

    Article • Climate and Development, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  3. Energy and the Anthropocene: security challenges and solutions

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clifford Shearing

  4. From passengers to crew: introductory reflections

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clifford Shearing

  5. Criminology in the face of flows: reflections on contemporary policing and security

    Article • Global Crime, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  6. A nodal perspective of governance: Advances in nodal governance thinking

    Article • February 2017, ANU Press

    Clifford Shearing

  7. Security in the Anthropocene

    Article • January 2017, Transcript Verlag

    Clifford Shearing

  8. Prisons, Tourism, and Symbolism: Reflecting (on) the Past, Present, and Future of South Africa

    Article • January 2017, Nature

    Clifford Shearing

  9. The practice of crime prevention: Design principles for more effective security governance

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, March 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Clifford Shearing

  10. Making South Africa Safe: Possibilities and Prospects

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  11. Back to the Future in South African Security: From Intentions to Effective Mechanisms: Part II - Restorative Justice, Crime, and (In)security in Africa

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  12. Reflections on the nature of policing and its development

    Article • Police Practice and Research, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  13. The conditions under which farmers are likely to adapt their behaviour: A case study of private land conservation in the Cape Winelands, South Africa

    Article • Land Use Policy, November 2015, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  14. A Conceptual Framework to Enable the Changes Required for a One-Planet Future

    Article • Environmental Values, October 2015, White Horse Press

    Clifford Shearing

  15. Sustainability Transitions: An Investigation of the Conditions under Which Corporations Are Likely To Reshape Their Practices to Reverse Environmental Degradation

    Article • Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, January 2015, Macrothink Institute, Inc.

    Clifford Shearing

  16. Privatisation, Pluralisation and the Globalisation of Policing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  17. Criminology: Re-Imagining Security and Risk

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  18. Policy Design and Nodal Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Environmental Policy Change in a South African City

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  19. A Conceptual Framework to Enable the Changes Required for a One-Planet Future

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  20. Municipalities, Politics, and Climate Change: An Example of the Process of Institutionalizing an Environmental Agenda Within Local Government

    Article • The Journal of Environment & Development, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  21. What enables local governments to mainstream climate change adaptation? Lessons learned from two municipal case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Article • Climate and Development, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  22. Curbing the Killing Fields

    Article • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  23. Policy Design and Nodal Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Environmental Policy Change in a South African City

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  24. Curbing the Killing Fields: Making South Africa Safer

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  25. Municipalities, Politics, and Climate Change: An Example of the Process of Institutionalizing an Environmental Agenda within Local Government

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  26. What Enables Local Governments to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation? Lessons Learned from Two Municipal Case Studies in the Western Cape, South Africa.

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  27. The many faces of nodal policing: Team play and improvisation in Dutch community safety

    Article • Security Journal, August 2013, Nature

    Clifford Shearing

  28. Meditative Reflections on Nils Christie's 'Words on Words' Through an African Lens

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  29. Insurance, Climate-Risk and the Barriers to Change

    Article • January 2013, Nature

    Clifford Shearing

  30. The Many Faces of Nodal Policing: Team Play and Improvisation in Dutch Community Safety

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  31. Tapestries on Policing: Foreword

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  32. City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater Bylaw: Barriers to Implementation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  33. Insurers could help address climate risks

    Article • Nature, August 2011, Nature

    Clifford Shearing

  34. Re-considering the Field of Policing: A Review ofThe Policing Web

    Article • Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale, July 2011, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Clifford Shearing

  35. Housing, institutions, money: the failures and promise of human settlements policy and practice in South Africa

    Article • Environment and Urbanization, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  36. Criminology's Disney World: The Ethnographer's Ride of South African Criminal Justice

    Article • January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  37. Restorative justice and nodal governance

    Article • International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  38. The Practice of Crime Prevention: Design Principles for More Effective Security Governance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing, Julie Berg

  39. Nodal wars and network fallacies

    Article • Theoretical Criminology, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  40. Introduction to the series

    Article • Police Practice and Research, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  41. The Curious Case of the Patten Report

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  42. Conceptual Models for Global Health Governance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  43. From a 'Dialogue of the Deaf' to a 'Dialogue of Listening': Towards a New Metholodogy of Policing Research and Practice

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  44. La gouvernance de la sécurité dans les États faibles et défaillants

    Article • Champ pénal, November 2009, OpenEdition

    Clifford Shearing

  45. From a 'dialogue of the deaf' to a 'dialogue of listening': towards a new methodology of policing research and practice

    Article • Police Practice and Research, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  46. The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing State

    Article • Champ pénal, June 2009, OpenEdition

    Clifford Shearing

  47. A Thin or Thick Blue Line? Exploring Alternative Models for Community Policing and the Police Role in South Africa1

    Article • June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  48. Who should the police be? Finding a new narrative for community policing in South Africa

    Article • Police Practice and Research, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  49. Subterranean processes in the maintenance of power: an examination of the mechanisms coordinating police action*

    Article • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, July 2008, Wiley

    Clifford Shearing

  50. Lengthening the Arm of the Law

    Article • January 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  51. From the Guest Editors: Re‐shaping Policing: Ideas in Action

    Article • Police Practice and Research, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  52. Neighbourhood Environmental Improvement Plans: Community Empowerment, Voluntary Collaboration and Legislative Design

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2007, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  53. Reflections on the Refusal to Acknowledge Private Governments

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2006, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  54. Configuring Security and Justice

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, October 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  55. Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, August 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  56. Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, August 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  57. Reconceptualising reform practice in South African policing

    Article • South African Review of Sociology, July 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  58. Justice in the Risk Society

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, April 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  59. Justice in the Risk Society

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, April 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  60. Nodal Security

    Article • Police Quarterly, March 2005, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  61. 1. Policing in Canada in the Twenty-first Century: Directions for Law Reform

    Article • January 2005, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Clifford Shearing

  62. Introduction: Diversity in policing: Multi-agency frameworks and strategies in South Africa

    Article • Society in Transition, July 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  63. Thoughts on sovereignty

    Article • Policing & Society, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  64. A Museum of Hope: a Story of Robben Island

    Article • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 2004, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  65. Introduction: Diversity in Policing: Multi-Agency Frameworks and Strategies in South Africa

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2004, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  66. The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing States

    Article • Criminal Justice, November 2003, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  67. Governing security for common goods

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Law, September 2003, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  68. Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New 'Denizens'

    Article • Journal of Law and Society, September 2003, Wiley

    Clifford Shearing

  69. Health and the Governance of Security: A Tale of Two Systems

    Article • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, December 2002, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  70. Health and the Governance of Security: A Tale of Two Systems

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  71. Microscopic and Macroscopic Responses to Inequalities in the Governance of Security: Respective Experiments in South Africa and Northern Ireland

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  72. Microscopic and Macroscopic Responses to Inequalities in the Governance of Security: Respective Experiments in South Africa and Northern Ireland

    Article • Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, January 2002, Project Muse

    Clifford Shearing

  73. A nodal conception of governance: Thoughts on a policing commission

    Article • Policing & Society, September 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  74. Punishment and the Changing Face of the Governance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  75. The Most Critical Unresolved Issue Associated with Contemporary Democratic Policing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  76. 'A New Beginning' for Policing

    Article • Journal of Law and Society, September 2000, Wiley

    Clifford Shearing

  77. Remarks of Professor Clifford Shearing (On Zero Tolerance)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1999, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  78. Reinventing Intellectuals

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1999, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  79. Reflections of the Evolving Concept of 'Private Policing'

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1999, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  80. 2. Theorizing - sotto voce

    Article • January 1998, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Clifford Shearing

  81. Reshaping Security: An Examination of the Governance of Security in South Africa

    Article • African Security Review, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  82. Governmentality, criticism, politics

    Article • Economy and Society, November 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  83. The Unrecognized Origins of the New Policing: Linkages between Public and Private Policing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1997, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  84. The Future of Policing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1996, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  85. The Future of Policing

    Article • Law & Society Review, January 1996, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  86. Policing for a New South Africa.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, January 1996, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  87. Transforming the Culture of Policing: Thoughts from South Africa

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, December 1995, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  88. Participatory Policing: Modalities in Lay Participation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1994, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  89. Policing for a New South Africa

    Article • September 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  90. Criminology: A Reader's Guide

    Article • Canadian Public Policy, December 1992, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  91. The Relation between Public and Private Policing

    Article • Crime and Justice, January 1992, University of Chicago Press

    Clifford Shearing

  92. Culture as Figurative Action

    Article • British Journal of Sociology, December 1991, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  93. Police Deviance and Accountability

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1991, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  94. A la recherche d'une police communautaire. L'histoire d'un grand ensemble de Toronto

    Article • Déviance et Société, January 1991, PERSEE Program

    Clifford Shearing

  95. 2. Controlling Interests: Two Conceptions of Order in Regulating a Financial Market

    Article • January 1990, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Clifford Shearing

  96. BOOK REVIEWS

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  97. Joining Forces: Police Training, Socialization, and Occupational Competence

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1990, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  98. Decriminalizing Criminology: Reflections on the Literal and Tropological Meaning of the Term

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1989, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  99. Private Policing

    Article • The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), January 1989, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  100. The "I," the "Me," and the "It": Moving beyond the Meadian Conception of Self

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1988, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  101. The 'I,' the 'Me,' and the 'It': Moving Beyond the Meadian Conception of Self

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1988, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  102. The Scientification of Police Work

    Article • January 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clifford Shearing

  103. Policing South Africa: Reflections on Botha's Reforms

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1986, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  104. Control in the Police Organization

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1985, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  105. Corporate Justice: Some Preliminary Thoughts

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, June 1984, SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  106. La sécurité privée au Canada : quelques questions et réponses

    Article • Criminologie, January 1984, Consortium Erudit

    Clifford Shearing

  107. Fragile Facades: Stuttering and the Strategic Manipulation of Awareness

    Article • Social Problems, December 1983, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  108. Fragile Facades: Stuttering and the Strategic Manipulation of Awareness

    Article • Social Problems, December 1983, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  109. Private Security: Implications for Social Control

    Article • Social Problems, June 1983, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  110. Private Security: Implications for Social Control

    Article • Social Problems, June 1983, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clifford Shearing

  111. Private Security: Implications for Social Control

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1983, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  112. An Analysis of the Prosecution of Shoplifters

    Article • Criminology, August 1982, Wiley

    Clifford Shearing

  113. Deviance and Conformity in the Reproduction of Order

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1981, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  114. Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1981, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  115. Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications

    Article • Crime and Justice, January 1981, University of Chicago Press

    Clifford Shearing

  116. The Quiet Revolution: The Nature, Development and General Legal Implications of Private Policing in Canada

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1980, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  117. Private Security and Private Justice

    Article • British Journal of Law and Society, January 1979, JSTOR

    Clifford Shearing

  118. The Quiet Revolution: The Nature, Development and General Legal Implications of Private Security in Canada

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1979, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  119. How to Make Theories Untestable: A Guide to Theorists

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1978, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  120. Towards a Phenomenological Sociology or Towards a Solution to the Parsonian Puzzle

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1973, Elsevier

    Clifford Shearing

  121. Integrated Security: Assembling Knowledges and Capacities

    Article • Wiley

    Julie Berg, Clifford Shearing

  122. Conflict resolution in South Africa: a case study

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  123. Criminology: Reimagining Security

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  124. Policing and New Environmental Governance

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Clifford Shearing

  125. Obtaining and Allocating Police Resources

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  126. Sale – Buying

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  127. Coercion

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  128. Reflections on the refusal to acknowledge private governments

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  129. Global non-state auspices of security governance

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Clifford Shearing

  130. Insurance, Climate-Risk and the Barriers to Change

    Article • Nature

    Clifford Shearing

  131. Sale – Selling

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  132. Foreword by Peter Neyroud

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  133. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  134. Gift

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  135. Ambiguous Exchanges and the Police

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  136. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  137. Conclusions

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  138. Nodal governance and the Zwelethemba Model

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing

  139. Transition, forgiveness and citizenship: the TRC and the social construction of forgiveness

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Clifford Shearing