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Overview

Clifford Shearing is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research predominantly spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Strategy and Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in Shearing's work include Disaster Management and Resilience, Policing Practices and Perceptions, Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, Disaster Response and Management, and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Shearing show a diverse interest across social and environmental challenges. These include:

  • "Adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: A case study from Tanzania" (2021) published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Criminology: Some lines of flight" (2021) published in Journal of Criminology
  • "The tensions of cyber-resilience: From sensemaking to practice" (2023) published in Computers & Security
  • "Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security" (2020) published in Society & Natural Resources
  • "'Partial functional redundancy': An expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk" (2020) published in Climate Risk Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shearing include Benoît Dupont, Julie Berg, Nicholas P. Simpson, David Sanderson, and Timothy Heffernan.

Shearing's work has been published in several venues, with recurring contributions to CrimRxiv, followed by Policing & Society, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Criminology.

Best Publications

  • THE FUTURE OF POLICING.

    David H Bayley;Clifford D Shearing

  • Governmentality, criticism, politics

    Pat O'Malley;Lorna Weir;Clifford Shearing

  • Private Security: Implications for Social Control

    Clifford D. Shearing;Philip C. Stenning

  • Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New ‘Denizens’

    Clifford Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • Governing Security: Explorations of Policing and Justice

    Les Johnston;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications

    Clifford D. Shearing;Philip C. Stenning

  • Policing for a New South Africa

    Michael Brogden;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Culture as figurative action.

    Clifford D. Shearing;Richard V. Ericson

  • Changes in Governance: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Current Scholarship

    Scott Burris;Michael Kempa;Clifford Shearing

  • Punishment and the Changing Face of the Governance

    Clifford Shearing

  • The New Environmental Governance

    Cameron Holley;Neil Gunningham;Clifford D. Shearing;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Reflections of the Evolving Concept of 'Private Policing'

    Michael Kempa;Ryan Carrier;Jennifer Wood;Clifford Shearing

  • The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing States

    Benoît Dupont;Peter Grabosky;Clifford Shearing

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

    Lorena Pasquini;Gina Ziervogel;Richard M. Cowling;Clifford Shearing

  • The Relation between Public and Private Policing

    Clifford D. Shearing

  • From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline

    Clifford Shearing;Philip Stenning

  • Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century

    Julie Ayling;Peter Grabosky;Clifford Shearing

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

    Lorena Pasquini;Clifford Shearing

  • Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security: Reflections on the refusal to acknowledge private governments

    Clifford Shearing

  • Governing Security for Common Goods

    Clifford Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • The Scientification of Police Work

    Richard V. Ericson;Clifford D. Shearing

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

    Benjamin Bradlow;Joel Bolnick;Clifford Denning Shearing

  • Reinventing Policing: Policing as Governance

    Clifford Shearing

  • A nodal conception of governance: Thoughts on a policing commission

    Clifford Shearing

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

    Monique Marks;Clifford Denning Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

    Philip C. Stenning;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Exclusion from public space

    Andrew von Hirsch;Clifford Shearing

Frequent Co-Authors

Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Edward R. Maguire
Edward R. Maguire Arizona State University

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