Les Johnston

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Policing Practices and Perceptions(31), Crime Patterns and Interventions(13), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis(9), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance(7), Sex work and related issues(6)

Publications70 total

Private Policing in Context
2017· 25 cited
The Trajectory of ‘Private Policing’
2017· 2 cited
Socialist theory and socialist pluralism
2015
Class and political ideology: a non-reductionist solution?
2015
Classical Marxism and the state
2015
Private investigation
2015· 1 cited
Dimensions of governance
2013
Historical shifts in security governance
2013
Introduction: thinking about security
2013
Governing Security
2013· 18 cited
The punishment mentality and coercive technologies
2013
Private policing or public policing?: Mark Button and Les Johnston
2013
Private or public policing
2011
The moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian Police
Police Practice and Research·2011· 32 cited
Nodal wars and network fallacies
Theoretical Criminology·2010· 34 cited
Nodal Wars and Network Fallacies
SSRN Electronic Journal·2010· 3 citedOpen Access
From a 'Dialogue of the Deaf' to a 'Dialogue of Listening': Towards a New Metholodogy of Policing Research and Practice
SSRN Electronic Journal·2010Open Access
Therapeutic Effectiveness of Self-Efficacy in the Reduction of Police Attitude to Corruption in Nigeria
The Police Journal Theory Practice and Principles·2009· 1 cited
From a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ to a ‘dialogue of listening’: towards a new methodology of policing research and practice
Police Practice and Research·2009· 21 cited
The effect of<i>locus</i>of control in the reduction of corruption in the Nigerian police
Policing An International Journal·2009· 9 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Clifford Shearing(8), Mark Button(5), Amos Oyesoji Aremu(4), Francis Pakes(4), Paul Mason(3), Colin Webster(3), Louise Ridley(3), Tom Williamson(3), Robert MacDonald(2), Kwabena Frimpong(2), Michael Kempa(2), David Shulman(1), Tracy Shildrick(1), Robert MacDonald(1), Geoff Smith(1), Geoffrey S. Smith(1), Joy D. Bringer(1), Celia Brackenridge(1)