School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Julie Berg

Lecturer in Criminology (Sociology)

telephone: 0141 330 1772
email: Julie.Berg@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-1778

Biography

Dr Julie Berg is a lecturer in criminology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, and a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, 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 research fellow in the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town and a member of the Evolving Securities Initiative (ESI), which is a global network of scholars and security professionals focusing on the generation of knowledge about existing and emerging harmscapes and associated security governance developments. She runs the ESI’s Glasgow Hub (ESI@GLA) which focuses on exploring the impacts of new risk harmscapes on security institutions, collaborative arrangements, and democratic policing.

Research interests

Polycentric/nodal security governance systems (with a focus on legitimacy, accountability, and democratic security provision)
Non-state policing with a focus on private security and community safety
Impacts of global harmscapes on security institutions

Grants

2018 – 2019 Network on Intelligence and Security Practices in African Countries (NISPAC), funded by Scottish Funding Council and Global Challenges Research Fund, £28,034 – co-PI

2018 Democratic Security Governance for the Public Good: Harnessing the Capacities of Non-state Security Nodes, funded by John Robertson Bequest, University of Glasgow, £1,500 – PI

2017 South African Research Chairs Initiative, Interim Research Chair in Justice and Security, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation, South Africa, ZAR2 325,000 (£123,473) – PI

2017 Political Assassination in South Africa, funded by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, ZAR400,000 (£21,242) – PI

2015 – 2016 Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models for Community Police Forums in the Western Cape, funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa, ZAR499,316 (£26,517) – co-PI

2015 – 2016 Design of Standard Operating Procedures and Models for Neighbourhood Watches in the Western Cape, funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa, ZAR499,316 (£26,517) – PI

2015 – 2016 Urban Safety, Violence and Crime in South African Cities, funded by the South African Cities Network and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, ZAR380,190 (£20,190) – co-PI

2015 – 2016 Strengthening Responses to Challenges of Crime, Corruption, Drugs and Terrorism: A Guide for Development Practitioners, funded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, US$172,194 (£130,271) – co-PI

2010 – 2011 A Whole-of-Society Approach to Safety in the Western Cape, funded by the Western Cape Provincial Government, South Africa, ZAR1 113,044 (£59,110) – co-PI

2010 – 2011 Towards Sustainable Public-Private Partnership Policing in South Africa: A Study of Major Events Policing in the City of Cape Town, funded by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, ZAR264,000 (£14,020) – PI

2008 Audit of Police Oversight in Africa, funded by the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, ZAR8,771 (£465) – PI

2008 Survey on the Civilian Oversight Committee of the Metro Police, funded by the City of Cape Town, South Africa, ZAR36,936 (£1,961) – PI

2006 Pluralisation of Policing in Cape Town, funded by the National Research Foundation, South Africa, ZAR39,408 (£2,092) – PI

Supervision

I am interested in supervising research projects in the broad areas of policing and security governance, with a particular interest in projects which focus on any of the following themes:

Plural policing, partnership policing, security networks, nodal governance or polycentric security governance
Non-state policing, private security, community safety or non-state organised violence
Urban safety, situational prevention or spatial design
Police/policing reform, regulation and accountability or democratic policing

Current PhD students:

Katharina Stoll (Criminology)

Teaching

Undergraduate

Sociology 1B: Critical Research in Contemporary Societies (lecturer)
Crime, Violence, and Social Control in Africa (course convener and lecturer)

Postgraduate

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

Additional information

Current roles and affiliations:

PGR Criminology Convenor and ESRC Criminology Socio-legal Pathway Representative, University of Glasgow (2018 – 2019)
Criminology Masters dissertation co-ordinator, 2019
External Examiner, Postgraduate LLM, Criminology Subject Area, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh (2018 – )
Member, British Society of Criminology, 2018 –
Council member, Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa (CRIMSA), 2011 –
Editorial Board member, Acta Criminologica, 2011 –
Research fellow, Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2018 –

Publications

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Jump to: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2001 | 2000

Number of items: 51.

2018

Berg, J. and Shearing, C. (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, J. (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, J. and Howell, S. (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. , 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, J. (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, J. (2015) New authorities: relating state and non-state security auspices in South African improvement districts. In: Albrecht, P. and Kyed, H. M. (eds.) Policing and the Politics of Order-making. Taylor & Francis (Routledge): Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415743303

Berg, J. and Howell, S. (2015) Running the gauntlet: police strategies and responses to strike action. In: Hepple, B., le Roux, R. and Sciarra, S. (eds.) Laws Against Strikes: the South African Experience in an International and Comparative Perspective. FrancoAngeli: Milan, pp. 185-205. ISBN 9788891713537

Nakueira, S. and Berg, J. (2015) Innovations in the governance of security: lessons from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In: Albrecht, J. F. (ed.) Policing Major Events: Perspectives from Around the World. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781466588059

2014

Berg, J. , Cartwright, J., Lamb, G. and McDonald, C. (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, J. (2014) Global non-state auspices of security governance. In: Arrigo, B. A. and Bersot, H. Y. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415781787

Diphoorn, T. and Berg, J. (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, J. (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, J. (2013) Governing security in public spaces: improvement districts in South Africa. In: Lippert, R. K. and Walby, K. (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, J. , Akinyele, R., Fourchard, L., van der Waal, K. and Williams, M. (2013) Contested social orders: negotiating urban security in Nigeria and South Africa. In: Bekker, S. and Fourchard, L. (eds.) Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies. HSRC Press: Cape Town, SA. ISBN 9780796924162

2012

Berg, J. (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, J. and Nouveau, J.-P. (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, J. (2011) Best Principles of Collaborative Security Governance: Lessons from the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, J. and Gabi, V. (2011) Regulating Private Security in South Africa: Context, Challenges and Recommendations. Documentation. African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum.

Berg, J. and Shearing, C. (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, J. (2011) Achieving sustained citizen safety in South Africa. Other. National Planning Commission, South African Government.

2010

Berg, J. (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, J. (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, J. and van der Spuy, E. (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, J. and Kinnes, I. (2009) An overview of crime in South Africa. Criminologist, 34(3), pp. 22-24.

2008

Berg, J. (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, J. and Shearing, C. (2008) Integrated security: assembling knowledges and capacities. In: Williamson, T. (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing. Wiley, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9780470028995 (doi:10.1002/9780470773215.ch18)

2007

Berg, J. (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, J. (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, J. (2007) Plural Policing in Cape Town: Recent Trends and Challenges to Oversight. Documentation. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, J. (2007) Workshop Report: Innovations in Urban Security Governance Cape Town, 18 September 2007. Other. Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

2006

Berg, J. (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, J. (2006) Implications of prison liberalization on correctional workers’ socio-economic security. In: Rosskam, E. (ed.) Winners or losers? Liberalizing Public Services. ILO: Geneva. ISBN 9789221174974

Berg, J. (2006) Private policing. In: Encyclopedia of Police Science. Routledge.

Berg, J. (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, C. and Berg, J. (2006) South Africa. In: Jones, T. and Newburn, T. (eds.) Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge,. ISBN 9780415355117

2005

Berg, J. (2005) The rise of tik and the crime rate. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 18(3), pp. 306-328.

Berg, J. (2005) Audit of Police Oversight in the East African Region. Documentation. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Berg, J. (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, J. (2005) Police Accountability in Southern African Commonwealth Countries. Documentation. University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology, Cape Town, SA..

2004

Berg, J. (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, J. (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, J. (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, J. and Scharf, W. (2004) Crime statistics in South Africa 1994-2003. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 17(1), pp. 57-78.

2003

Berg, J. (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, J. (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, J. (2003) Research on Police Accountability and Oversight Mechanisms in South Africa 1998-2003. Project Report. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

2001

Berg, J. (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, J. (2001) Accountability in private corrections: Monitoring the performance of private prisons in South Africa. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 14, p. 327.

Berg, J. (2001) Contracting corrections: future prospects for a developing country. Crime and Conflict,

2000

Berg, J. (2000) Privatisierung als Chance für die Häftlinge? Der Überblick(54),

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