Dr Julie Berg

  • Senior Lecturer in Criminology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Biography

Dr Julie Berg is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, and a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), at the University of Glasgow. She joined the University of Glasgow in January 2018, having previously held a full-time research and teaching appointment at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a senior research fellow in the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town.

Julie has expertise in criminology and governance studies – her research primarily focuses on polycentric governance, ‘whole-of-society’ governance, and sustainable development in the African context. She, with others, has introduced concepts and theoretical framings such as ‘harmscapes’ and ‘governing-through-harm’ in recognition of the need to govern new global harms in innovative harm-focussed ways and to analytically account for converging everyday harms in southern contexts. She has also developed the novel concept of ‘assemblages of care’ to account for the governance challenges in Global South contexts and the need for contextually relevant plural governance solutions. Further to this, she has co-developed the emerging field of ‘southern blue criminology’ – applying a decolonised perspective to oceanic harmscapes, drawing on ecological posthumanism to understand human-nonhuman entanglements.

Julie co-leads a global multi-disciplinary team of scholars, the Small Islands Security Governance Research Group, which aims to build networks, engage in dialogue and conduct research intended to advance how security governance in small islands is conceptualised, understood, and approached.

The objectives of the group are to:

  1. Advance understandings of island jurisdictions as spaces with historical and cultural complexities compounded by interfaces with colonialism and other externalities;
  2. Contextualise crime, violence, harm, and victimhood in Small Island Developing States;
  3. Conduct research on various aspects of security governance in small islands informed by understandings of indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and mobilisations; and
  4. Improve conceptual and evidence bases to inform sustainable development and security agendas in small islands.

Research interests

My research interests include:

  • plural, polycentric and non-state security governance (community and private sector)
  • everyday security and justice in the Global South
  • climate change impacts on everyday governance
  • ocean and environmental harms
  • decolonial and postcolonial criminology

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 63.

2025

Watson, Danielle, Blaustein, Jarrett, Pino, Nathan W. and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2025) Crime and governance in the Global South. Annual Review of Criminology, 8(1), pp. 291-310. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-criminol-022222-032132)

2024

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2024) ‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes. Urban Studies, 61(14), pp. 2703-2718. (doi: 10.1177/00420980241231240)

Hübschle, Annette and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2024) Southern blue criminology: rethinking ocean harmscapes in a global context. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, 1422829. (doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1422829)

Malik, Ali and Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2024) Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis. Policing and Society, (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2024.2389961) (Early Online Publication)

Watson, Danielle, Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Laponi, Lamese (2024) Actioning the human rights agenda and issues of access to justice. In: A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology. Series: Palgrave critical studies in Human rights and criminology. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031462887 (Accepted for Publication)

Cooper-Knock, S.J., Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Diphoorn, Tess (2024) Publics of policing: Expanding approaches to nodal policing. Policing and Society, 34(1-2), pp. 87-103. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2255922)

2023

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2023) Private security. In: Criminology. Series: Oxford bibliographies. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0329)

2022

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Lamb, Guy (2022) Plural Policing in Crisis: Inclusive security provision in violent and unequal societies. In: Watson, Danielle, Amin, Sara N., Wallace, Wendell C., Akinlabi, Oluwagbenga (Michael) and Ruiz-Vásquez, Juan Carlos (eds.) Policing the Global South: Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781003126409 (doi: 10.4324/9781003126409-12)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2022) Private security's accountabilities within polycentric assemblages. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 46(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1080/01924036.2020.1788959)

2021

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2021) Policing reform in the context of plural policing: the South African case. Policing, 15(1), pp. 412-424. (doi: 10.1093/police/paaa075)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2021) Criminology: some lines of flight. Journal of Criminology, 54(1), pp. 21-33. (doi: 10.1177/26338076211014569)

2020

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2020) Polycentric security governance and sustainable development in the Global South. In: Blaustein, Jarrett, Fitz-Gibbon, Kate, Pino, Nathan W. and White, Rob (eds.) The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, pp. 153-173. ISBN 9781787693562 (doi: 10.1108/978-1-78769-355-520201011)

2018

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2018) Governing-through-harm and public goods policing. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 679(1), pp. 72-85. (doi: 10.1177/0002716218778540)

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2018) Review of: Paul Higate and Mats Utas, eds. Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday. London: Zed Books, 2017. viii + 184 pp. ISBN: 9781786990259. African Studies Review, 61(1), pp. 259-260. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2017.137)[Book Review]

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Howell, Simon (2018) The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 41(4), pp. 273-286. (doi: 10.1080/01924036.2017.1364280)

2017

Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Lamb, G. and Howell, S. (2017) Report on Research Findings for the Projects: CCOS02940: Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models on Section 6.1-6.13 Neighbourhood Watch & CCOS02941: Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models on Section 5.1-5.3 Community Police Forums. Other. Western Cape Provincial Government Department of Community Safety, Cape Town. (Unpublished)

2016

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2016) Civilian oversight of police in Africa: trends and challenges. In: den Heyer, G. and Prenzler, T. (eds.) Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement. Series: Advances in police theory and practice series. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781482234183

2015

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2015) New authorities: relating state and non-state security auspices in South African improvement districts. In: Albrecht, Peter and Kyed, Helene Maria (eds.) Policing and the Politics of Order-making. Taylor & Francis (Routledge): Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415743303

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Howell, Simon (2015) Running the gauntlet: police strategies and responses to strike action. In: Hepple, Bob, le Roux, Rochelle and Sciarra, Silvana (eds.) Laws Against Strikes: the South African Experience in an International and Comparative Perspective. FrancoAngeli: Milan, pp. 185-205. ISBN 9788891713537

Nakueira, Sophie and Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2015) Innovations in the governance of security: lessons from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In: Albrecht, James F. (ed.) Policing Major Events: Perspectives from Around the World. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781466588059

2014

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Cartwright, John, Lamb, Guy and McDonald, Claire (2014) Final Report Prepared for the Legal Resources Centre: Breakdown in the Relationship Between the Police and Community in Khayelitsha. Other. Centre of Criminology and the Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVi), University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2014) Global non-state auspices of security governance. In: Arrigo, Bruce A. and Bersot, Heather Y. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415781787

Diphoorn, Tessa and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2014) Typologies of partnership policing: case studies from urban South Africa. Policing and Society, 24(4), pp. 425-442. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2013.864500)

2013

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2013) Civilian oversight of police in South Africa: from the ICD to the IPID. Police Practice and Research, 14(2), pp. 144-154. (doi: 10.1080/15614263.2013.767094)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2013) Governing security in public spaces: improvement districts in South Africa. In: Lippert, Randy K. and Walby, Kevin (eds.) Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a Twenty-first Century World. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group): London, UK, pp. 161-175. (doi: 10.4324/9780203107362)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Akinyele, Rufus, Fourchard, Laurent, van der Waal, Kees and Williams, Michellene (2013) Contested social orders: negotiating urban security in Nigeria and South Africa. In: Bekker, Simon and Fourchard, Laurent (eds.) Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies. HSRC Press: Cape Town, SA. ISBN 9780796924162

2012

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2012) Review of: Security Beyond the State: Private security in international politics by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams. African Affairs, 111(444), pp. 496-497. (doi: 10.1093/afraf/ads035)[Book Review]

Ward, C.L. et al. (2012) Violence, violence prevention, and safety: A research agenda for South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 102(4), pp. 215-218. (PMID:22464496)

2011

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Nouveau, Jean-Pierre (2011) Towards a third phase of regulation: re-imagining private security in South Africa. South African Crime Quarterly(38), pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.17159/2413-3108/2011/v0i38a850)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2011) Best Principles of Collaborative Security Governance: Lessons from the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Gabi, Vavariro (2011) Regulating Private Security in South Africa: Context, Challenges and Recommendations. Documentation. African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2011) The practice of crime prevention: design principles for more effective security governance. South Africa Crime Quarterly, 36, pp. 23-30. (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2674002)

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2011) Achieving sustained citizen safety in South Africa. Other. National Planning Commission, South African Government.

2010

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2010) Seeing like private security: Evolving mentalities of public space protection in South Africa. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10(3), pp. 287-301. (doi: 10.1177/1748895810370315)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2010) Policing South African cities: plural and spatial perspectives. In: Cools, M. (ed.) Police, Policing, Policy and the City in Europe. Eleven International Publishing: The Hague. ISBN 9789089743374

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and van der Spuy, Elerna (2010) Challenges for the good governance of security in the African context. In: Sagant, V. and Shaw, M. (eds.) International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Trends and Perspectives. International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC): Montreal, Quebec, pp. 123-125. ISBN 9782921916691

2009

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Kinnes, Irvin (2009) An overview of crime in South Africa. Criminologist, 34(3), pp. 22-24.

2008

Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2008) Holding South Africa's private security industry accountable : mechanisms of control and challenges to oversight. Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, 21(1), pp. 87-96.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2008) Integrated security: assembling knowledges and capacities. In: Williamson, Tom (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing. Wiley, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9780470028995 (doi: 10.1002/9780470773215.ch18)

2007

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) The Accountability of South Africa's Private Security Industry: Mechanisms of Control and Challenges to Effective Oversight. Documentation. Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Newlands, South Africa.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Child Justice Alliance Court Monitoring Project, Phase Two: Report on the Attendance of Children in Court at Three Magisterial Districts from September to December 2006 and from January to February 2007. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Plural Policing in Cape Town: Recent Trends and Challenges to Oversight. Documentation. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Workshop Report: Innovations in Urban Security Governance Cape Town, 18 September 2007. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

2006

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Child Justice Alliance Monitoring Project: Wynberg Magistrate’s Court: Report on Attendance of Wynberg’s Juvenile Court – June to September 2005. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Implications of prison liberalization on correctional workers’ socio-economic security. In: Rosskam, Ellen (ed.) Winners or losers? Liberalizing Public Services. ILO: Geneva. ISBN 9789221174974

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Private policing. In: Encyclopedia of Police Science. Routledge.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Working Annotated Bibliography on Adult and Youth Sex Offenders: National and International Literature 1990-2005. Other. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Shearing, Clifford and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) South Africa. In: Jones, T. and Newburn, T. (eds.) Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge,. ISBN 9780415355117

2005

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) The rise of tik and the crime rate. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 18(3), pp. 306-328.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Audit of Police Oversight in the East African Region. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Overview of Plural Policing Oversight in select Southern African Development Community (SADC) Countries. Documentation. University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology, Cape Town, SA..

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Police Accountability in Southern African Commonwealth Countries. Documentation. University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology, Cape Town, SA..

2004

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Challenges to a formal private security industry-SAPS partnership: Lessons from the Western Cape. Society in Transition, 35(1), pp. 105-124. (doi: 10.1080/21528586.2004.10419109)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Evaluating the SAYStOP Prevention Programme: Preliminary Findings August-October 2004. Other. South African Young Sex Offenders Programme (SAYStOP) Consortium; Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Private policing in South Africa: The Cape Town city improvement district — pluralisation in practice. Society in Transition, 35(2), pp. 224-250. (doi: 10.1080/21528586.2004.10419117)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Scharf, Wilfried (2004) Crime statistics in South Africa 1994-2003. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 17(1), pp. 57-78.

2003

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) Prison privatization developments in South Africa. In: Coyle, A., Campbell, A. and Neufeld, R. (eds.) Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights. University of Chicago Press, pp. 179-188. ISBN 9781842772904

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) The private security industry in South Africa: a review of applicable legislation. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 16(2), pp. 178-196.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) Research on Police Accountability and Oversight Mechanisms in South Africa 1998-2003. Project Report. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

2001

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Private prisons : the international debate and its relation to South Africa. Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, 14(3), pp. 2-12.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Accountability in private corrections: Monitoring the performance of private prisons in South Africa. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 14, p. 327.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Contracting corrections: future prospects for a developing country. Crime and Conflict,

2000

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2000) Privatisierung als Chance für die Häftlinge? Der Überblick(54),

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Articles

Watson, Danielle, Blaustein, Jarrett, Pino, Nathan W. and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2025) Crime and governance in the Global South. Annual Review of Criminology, 8(1), pp. 291-310. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-criminol-022222-032132)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2024) ‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes. Urban Studies, 61(14), pp. 2703-2718. (doi: 10.1177/00420980241231240)

Hübschle, Annette and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2024) Southern blue criminology: rethinking ocean harmscapes in a global context. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, 1422829. (doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1422829)

Malik, Ali and Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2024) Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis. Policing and Society, (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2024.2389961) (Early Online Publication)

Cooper-Knock, S.J., Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Diphoorn, Tess (2024) Publics of policing: Expanding approaches to nodal policing. Policing and Society, 34(1-2), pp. 87-103. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2255922)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2022) Private security's accountabilities within polycentric assemblages. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 46(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1080/01924036.2020.1788959)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2021) Policing reform in the context of plural policing: the South African case. Policing, 15(1), pp. 412-424. (doi: 10.1093/police/paaa075)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2021) Criminology: some lines of flight. Journal of Criminology, 54(1), pp. 21-33. (doi: 10.1177/26338076211014569)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2018) Governing-through-harm and public goods policing. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 679(1), pp. 72-85. (doi: 10.1177/0002716218778540)

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Howell, Simon (2018) The private security complex and its regulation in Africa: select examples from the continent. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 41(4), pp. 273-286. (doi: 10.1080/01924036.2017.1364280)

Diphoorn, Tessa and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2014) Typologies of partnership policing: case studies from urban South Africa. Policing and Society, 24(4), pp. 425-442. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2013.864500)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2013) Civilian oversight of police in South Africa: from the ICD to the IPID. Police Practice and Research, 14(2), pp. 144-154. (doi: 10.1080/15614263.2013.767094)

Ward, C.L. et al. (2012) Violence, violence prevention, and safety: A research agenda for South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 102(4), pp. 215-218. (PMID:22464496)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Nouveau, Jean-Pierre (2011) Towards a third phase of regulation: re-imagining private security in South Africa. South African Crime Quarterly(38), pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.17159/2413-3108/2011/v0i38a850)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2011) The practice of crime prevention: design principles for more effective security governance. South Africa Crime Quarterly, 36, pp. 23-30. (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2674002)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2010) Seeing like private security: Evolving mentalities of public space protection in South Africa. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10(3), pp. 287-301. (doi: 10.1177/1748895810370315)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Kinnes, Irvin (2009) An overview of crime in South Africa. Criminologist, 34(3), pp. 22-24.

Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2008) Holding South Africa's private security industry accountable : mechanisms of control and challenges to oversight. Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, 21(1), pp. 87-96.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) The rise of tik and the crime rate. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 18(3), pp. 306-328.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Challenges to a formal private security industry-SAPS partnership: Lessons from the Western Cape. Society in Transition, 35(1), pp. 105-124. (doi: 10.1080/21528586.2004.10419109)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Private policing in South Africa: The Cape Town city improvement district — pluralisation in practice. Society in Transition, 35(2), pp. 224-250. (doi: 10.1080/21528586.2004.10419117)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Scharf, Wilfried (2004) Crime statistics in South Africa 1994-2003. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 17(1), pp. 57-78.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) The private security industry in South Africa: a review of applicable legislation. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 16(2), pp. 178-196.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Private prisons : the international debate and its relation to South Africa. Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, 14(3), pp. 2-12.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Accountability in private corrections: Monitoring the performance of private prisons in South Africa. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 14, p. 327.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2001) Contracting corrections: future prospects for a developing country. Crime and Conflict,

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2000) Privatisierung als Chance für die Häftlinge? Der Überblick(54),

Book Sections

Watson, Danielle, Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Laponi, Lamese (2024) Actioning the human rights agenda and issues of access to justice. In: A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology. Series: Palgrave critical studies in Human rights and criminology. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031462887 (Accepted for Publication)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2023) Private security. In: Criminology. Series: Oxford bibliographies. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0329)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Lamb, Guy (2022) Plural Policing in Crisis: Inclusive security provision in violent and unequal societies. In: Watson, Danielle, Amin, Sara N., Wallace, Wendell C., Akinlabi, Oluwagbenga (Michael) and Ruiz-Vásquez, Juan Carlos (eds.) Policing the Global South: Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781003126409 (doi: 10.4324/9781003126409-12)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2020) Polycentric security governance and sustainable development in the Global South. In: Blaustein, Jarrett, Fitz-Gibbon, Kate, Pino, Nathan W. and White, Rob (eds.) The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, pp. 153-173. ISBN 9781787693562 (doi: 10.1108/978-1-78769-355-520201011)

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2016) Civilian oversight of police in Africa: trends and challenges. In: den Heyer, G. and Prenzler, T. (eds.) Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement. Series: Advances in police theory and practice series. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781482234183

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2015) New authorities: relating state and non-state security auspices in South African improvement districts. In: Albrecht, Peter and Kyed, Helene Maria (eds.) Policing and the Politics of Order-making. Taylor & Francis (Routledge): Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415743303

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Howell, Simon (2015) Running the gauntlet: police strategies and responses to strike action. In: Hepple, Bob, le Roux, Rochelle and Sciarra, Silvana (eds.) Laws Against Strikes: the South African Experience in an International and Comparative Perspective. FrancoAngeli: Milan, pp. 185-205. ISBN 9788891713537

Nakueira, Sophie and Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2015) Innovations in the governance of security: lessons from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In: Albrecht, James F. (ed.) Policing Major Events: Perspectives from Around the World. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781466588059

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2014) Global non-state auspices of security governance. In: Arrigo, Bruce A. and Bersot, Heather Y. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415781787

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2013) Governing security in public spaces: improvement districts in South Africa. In: Lippert, Randy K. and Walby, Kevin (eds.) Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a Twenty-first Century World. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group): London, UK, pp. 161-175. (doi: 10.4324/9780203107362)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Akinyele, Rufus, Fourchard, Laurent, van der Waal, Kees and Williams, Michellene (2013) Contested social orders: negotiating urban security in Nigeria and South Africa. In: Bekker, Simon and Fourchard, Laurent (eds.) Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies. HSRC Press: Cape Town, SA. ISBN 9780796924162

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2010) Policing South African cities: plural and spatial perspectives. In: Cools, M. (ed.) Police, Policing, Policy and the City in Europe. Eleven International Publishing: The Hague. ISBN 9789089743374

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and van der Spuy, Elerna (2010) Challenges for the good governance of security in the African context. In: Sagant, V. and Shaw, M. (eds.) International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Trends and Perspectives. International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC): Montreal, Quebec, pp. 123-125. ISBN 9782921916691

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Shearing, Clifford (2008) Integrated security: assembling knowledges and capacities. In: Williamson, Tom (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing. Wiley, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9780470028995 (doi: 10.1002/9780470773215.ch18)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Implications of prison liberalization on correctional workers’ socio-economic security. In: Rosskam, Ellen (ed.) Winners or losers? Liberalizing Public Services. ILO: Geneva. ISBN 9789221174974

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Private policing. In: Encyclopedia of Police Science. Routledge.

Shearing, Clifford and Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) South Africa. In: Jones, T. and Newburn, T. (eds.) Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge,. ISBN 9780415355117

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) Prison privatization developments in South Africa. In: Coyle, A., Campbell, A. and Neufeld, R. (eds.) Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights. University of Chicago Press, pp. 179-188. ISBN 9781842772904

Book Reviews

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2018) Review of: Paul Higate and Mats Utas, eds. Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday. London: Zed Books, 2017. viii + 184 pp. ISBN: 9781786990259. African Studies Review, 61(1), pp. 259-260. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2017.137)[Book Review]

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2012) Review of: Security Beyond the State: Private security in international politics by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams. African Affairs, 111(444), pp. 496-497. (doi: 10.1093/afraf/ads035)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Berg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Lamb, G. and Howell, S. (2017) Report on Research Findings for the Projects: CCOS02940: Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models on Section 6.1-6.13 Neighbourhood Watch & CCOS02941: Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models on Section 5.1-5.3 Community Police Forums. Other. Western Cape Provincial Government Department of Community Safety, Cape Town. (Unpublished)

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778, Cartwright, John, Lamb, Guy and McDonald, Claire (2014) Final Report Prepared for the Legal Resources Centre: Breakdown in the Relationship Between the Police and Community in Khayelitsha. Other. Centre of Criminology and the Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVi), University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2011) Best Principles of Collaborative Security Governance: Lessons from the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 and Gabi, Vavariro (2011) Regulating Private Security in South Africa: Context, Challenges and Recommendations. Documentation. African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum.

Berg, Juliet ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2011) Achieving sustained citizen safety in South Africa. Other. National Planning Commission, South African Government.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) The Accountability of South Africa's Private Security Industry: Mechanisms of Control and Challenges to Effective Oversight. Documentation. Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Newlands, South Africa.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Child Justice Alliance Court Monitoring Project, Phase Two: Report on the Attendance of Children in Court at Three Magisterial Districts from September to December 2006 and from January to February 2007. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Plural Policing in Cape Town: Recent Trends and Challenges to Oversight. Documentation. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2007) Workshop Report: Innovations in Urban Security Governance Cape Town, 18 September 2007. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Child Justice Alliance Monitoring Project: Wynberg Magistrate’s Court: Report on Attendance of Wynberg’s Juvenile Court – June to September 2005. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2006) Working Annotated Bibliography on Adult and Youth Sex Offenders: National and International Literature 1990-2005. Other. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Audit of Police Oversight in the East African Region. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Overview of Plural Policing Oversight in select Southern African Development Community (SADC) Countries. Documentation. University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology, Cape Town, SA..

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2005) Police Accountability in Southern African Commonwealth Countries. Documentation. University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology, Cape Town, SA..

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2004) Evaluating the SAYStOP Prevention Programme: Preliminary Findings August-October 2004. Other. South African Young Sex Offenders Programme (SAYStOP) Consortium; Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778 (2003) Research on Police Accountability and Oversight Mechanisms in South Africa 1998-2003. Project Report. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

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Grants

2025 - 2026 Evaluating the Impact of an Evidence-Based Whole-of-Society Approach on South African Violence Prevention Policymaking (PI), funded by the British Academy

2021 - 2022 Accounting for Complexities: An Intersectional Approach to Enhancing Police Practitioner Accountability, Legitimacy and Sustainable Reform (PI), funded by Police Scotland, the Scottish Institute for Policing Research and the Scottish Police Authority

2021 - 2022 Tracing Informal and Illicit Plastic Waste Disposal in the Maldives (Co-I), funded by the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Development Grant

2020 - 2021 New Research and Teaching Pathways in the Digital Age: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities for Criminologists and Sociologists During Covid-19 (Co-I), funded by the U21 Researcher Resilience Fund 

2018 – 2019 Network on Intelligence and Security Practices in African Countries (NISPAC) (Co-I), funded by Scottish Funding Council and Global Challenges Research Fund 

2018 Democratic Security Governance for the Public Good: Harnessing the Capacities of Non-state Security Nodes (PI), funded by John Robertson Bequest, University of Glasgow                                               

2017 Research Chair in Justice and Security, South African Research Chairs Initiative, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation, South Africa

2017 Political Assassination in South Africa (PI), funded by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2015 – 2016 Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models for Community Police Forums in the Western Cape (Co-I), funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa

2015 – 2016 Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models for Neighbourhood Watches in the Western Cape(PI), funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa

2015 – 2016 Urban Safety, Violence and Crime in South African Cities (Co-I), funded by the South African Cities Network and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

2015 – 2016 Strengthening Responses to Challenges of Crime, Corruption, Drugs and Terrorism: A Guide for Development Practitioners (Co-I), funded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

2010 – 2011 A Whole-of-Society Approach to Safety in the Western Cape (Co-I), funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa

2010 – 2011 Towards Sustainable Public-Private Partnership Policing in South Africa: A Study of Major Events Policing in the City of Cape Town (PI), funded by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa

2008 Audit of Police Oversight in Africa (PI), funded by the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum 

2008 Survey on the Civilian Oversight Committee of the Metro Police (PI), funded by the City of Cape Town, South Africa

2006 Pluralisation of Policing in Cape Town (PI), funded by the National Research Foundation, South Africa 

Supervision

PhD Supervision

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD applicants, particularly those interested in pursuing research related to my interests.

Current PhD Students

Roux, J-P. (2020 - ) 'Police adoption of body-worn video technology in England and Wales: A socio-technical analysis of change' (PhD, University of Glasgow).

Succesful PhD Completions

Holland, R. (2020 - 2025) 'See it. Say it. Sorted: Emotional Labour within British Transport Police Operations at Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station' (PhD, University of Edinburgh).

 

 

Teaching

Current

Undergraduate

  • Sociology 1B: Critical Research in Contemporary Societies (lecturer) 
  • Criminology, climate change and the environment (lecturer)

Past

Undergraduate

  • Crime, Violence, and Social Control in Africa (course convener and lecturer)

Postgraduate

  • Criminology Dissertation: Methods Lab (course convener and lecturer)
  • Criminal Justice: Current Issues, Comparative Challenges (lecturer)
  • Criminological Perspectives on Security and Globalisation (course convener and lecturer)
  • Criminological Theory in Context (course convener and lecturer)

Additional information

Roles and affiliations:

  • Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (2023 - 2025)
  • Associate Director (Internationalisation) of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (2020 - 2022)
  • PGT Criminology Convenor (2019 - 2022, 2024)
  • External Examiner, Postgraduate LLM, Criminology Subject Area, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh (2018 - 2022)
  • Member, European Society of Criminology (2020 - )
  • Member, British Society of Criminology (2018 - )
  • Member, Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa (2007 - 2023)
  • Editorial Board member, Acta Criminologica (2013 - )
  • Senior research fellow, Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2017 - )