Clifford D. Shearing
Clifford Shearing is the Chair of Criminology and Director of the Centre of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. He also holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Security and Justice. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto in 1977 and is an A rated scholar. Clifford is a well-established and internationally recognised scholar in the field of policing and security. His research and writing has focused on the development of theoretical understandings that can be used to enhance the quality of security and justice governance. A particular focus of his work has been contributing to the development of institutions and processes that enhance the ability of poor collectivities to both direct and add value to their security and justice. He is currently developing research on environmental security.
Clifford has made many contributions to policy development for security strategy. He was on the editorial panel and contributed to the South African National Science Plan developed as part of the Global Change Grand Challenge in 2008. Other policy contributions were to the "Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Strategic Review Panel" 2007 – 2008. Previous policy contributions include developing policing strategy with the Canadian Law Commission, the Patten Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland and as a member of the Goldstone Commission playing a role in developing the strategy for policing South Africa's first democratic elections.
He has published numerous accredited journal articles and book chapters. A new book (with Neil Gunningham and Cameron Holley), published 2011 is entitled The New Environmental Governance, Earthscan. Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice edited by Johnston, L. & Shearing, C., was published by Routledge in 2011.
Clifford is supervising 9 Doctoral students and also co-teaches the Masters course of Theories of Crime and Social Order in the Public Law Department.
Recent publications:
Books and Special Issues:
Gunningham, N., Holley, C. & Shearing, C. 2011.The New Environmental Governance. Earthscan.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. Forthcoming. Mobilising Local Knowledge and Capacity in the Governance of Security. CRC Press.
Johnston, L. & Shearing, C. 2011. (eds). Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice IPES Series. Routledge.
Johnston, L and Shearing, C. 2009. Joint Guest Editors Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. Special Anniversary Issue, Vol 10 (5&6).
Ayling, J., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 2009. Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the 21st Century. Cambridge Studies in Criminology.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2007. Imagining Security. Cullompton, Willan Publishing.
Shearing, C. & Wood, J. (eds). 2007. Re-shaping Policing: Ideas in Action. Police Practice and Research, Special Issue, 8(2).
Journal Articles
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. 2011. Being a New Police in the Liquid 21stCentury. 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 – Teaching tips column. pp 14.
Wood, J. & Shearing, C. 2009. De Nodale Politiefunctie (Being a Nodal Police). Justitiële verkenningen.(Judicial Explorations) Nodal Governance en Veiligheidszorfg. 3 (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).
Ayling, J. & Shearing, C. 2008. Taking care of business: Public police as commercial security vendors. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8, 27-50.
Shearing, C. & Foster, D. 2007. Back to the Future in South African Security: From Intentions to Effective Mechanisms. Acta Juridica. 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.
Articles in Books:
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. Forthcoming. ‘Re-imagining Justice from the Bottom Up’. Monograph in Honour of Tony Mathews’. University of Kwazulu Natal.
Shearing, C. Forthcoming. ‘Back to the Future: Revisiting the National Crime Prevention Strategy’ in Barolsky, B, Pillay, S and Sanchez, D. (eds). Violence, Criminality and Citizenship in the Global South. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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. pp. 237 -264. Available online: here.
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. pp 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. pp 103-133.
Shearing, C. & Marks, M. 2010 In Press. ‘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.
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/Taylor and Francis.
Hein,W., Burris, S. and 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.
Shearing, C and Cartwright, J. 2009. Introduction in Criminal (In)Justice in South Africa: A Civil Society Perspective ed. By Gould, C. African Security Governance: Emerging Issues. ISS.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2009. ‘Reform’, in Fleming, J. and Wakefield, A. (eds). The Sage Dictionary of Policing. London: Sage. pp 266-269.
Leman-Langlois, S. & Shearing, C. 2008. Transition, Forgiveness and Citizenship : The TRC and the Social Construction of Forgiveness. Chapter 8 in Du Bois, F. and Pedain, A. (eds.) Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berg, J. and C. Shearing 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.
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). pp 156 – 170.
Froestad, J & Shearing, C. 2007. ‘Beyond Restorative Justice - Zwelethemba, a futurefocused model of local capacity conflict resolution’, in Mackay, R., Bošnjak, M., Deklerck, J., Pelikan, C., van Stokkom, B., and Wright, M. (eds). Images of restorative justice theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft. ISBN 978-3-86676021-9, pp 16 – 34.
Shearing, C. 2007. ‘Policing our future’ in Henry, A. & Smith, D.J. (eds). Transformations of Policing. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 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. pp 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. pp 534 – 556.
Ayling, J., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 2006. ‘Harnessing Resources for Networked Policing’, in J. Fleming, J. and Wood, J. (eds). Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing and Security Networks. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. pp 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.
Froestad, J. & Shearing, C. 2006. ‘Conflict Resolution in South-Africa: A Case Study’, in Johnstone, G. and Van Ness, D. (eds). Handbook of Restorative Justice. Cullompton, UK: Willan. pp 534 – 556.
Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2006. ‘Plural Policing in South Africa: an African case’, in Jones, T. and Newburn, T. (eds). Plural Policing. London: Routledge.
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. pp 11 – 32.
Other:
Leman-Langlois, S and Shearing, C. 2010. Social Control and Human Rights. Contributors to The Widening Web of Control: A Human Rights Analysis of Public Policy Responses to Crime, Social Problems and Deviance.Geneva: International Council on Human Rights.
Editorial Panel member for the South African National Science Plan developed as part of the Global Change Grand Challenge, 2009.
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Shearing, C. & Wood, J. 2007. Imagining Security. Cullompton, Willan Publishing.
This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and non-governmental sectors.
Ayling, J., Grabosky, P. & Shearing, C. 2009. Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the 21st Century. Cambridge Studies in Criminology. Cambridge Press.
The dramatic transformation in police management in the 21st Century is the focus of this book, as well as new methods of exchange between police and third party service providers.