Private policing
Button, M. (2023) Working with Private Policing to Enhance Public Policing: The Case of the United Kingdom. In, Blackstone, E., Hakim, S. and Meehan, B. (eds) Handbook of Public and Private Security. pp 223-244. Springer.
Button, M. (2020) The “New” Private Security Industry, the Private Policing of Cyberspace and the Regulatory Questions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 36, 39-55.
Button, M. (2019). Private Policing. Routledge.
Button, M. and Wakefield, A. (2018) 'The Real Private Police': Franchising Constables and the Emergence of Employer Supported Policing. In, Hucklesby, A. and Lister, S. (eds) The Private Sector and Criminal Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Wakefield, A., and Button, M. (2014) Private Policing in Public Spaces. In, Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing. Oxford University Press.
Button, M. (1999) Private Security and its Contribution to Policing: Under-researched, Under-utilized and Underestimated. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 2, pp 103-116.
Button, M. (2006) Community Safety and the Private Security Sector. In (ed) Squires, P. Understanding Community Safety. Bristol: Policy Press
Button, M. (2004) ‘Softly, Softly’, Private Security and the Policing of Corporate Space. In, Hopkins-Burke, R. (ed) Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Dilemmas and Debates in Contemporary Policing. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
Security officers and policing
Kim, H., Button, M. and Lee, J. (2018) Public Perceptions of Private Security in Shopping Malls: A Comparison of the United Kingdom and South Korea. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 53: 89-100.
Talas, R., Button, M, Doyle, M. and Das, J. (2021) Violence, abuse and the implications for mental health and wellbeing of security operatives in the United Kingdom: the invisible problem. Policing and Society, 31:3, 321-336, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1739047
Button, M. and Park, H. (2009) Security Officers and The Policing Of Private Space In South Korea: Profile, Powers And Occupational Hazards. Policing and Society, 19, 247-262.
Button, M. (2016). Security officers and policing: powers, culture and control in the governance of private space. Routledge.
Button, M. (2003) Private Security and the Policing of Quasi-Public Space. International Journal of the Sociology of the Law, 31, pp 227-237.
George, B. and Button, M. (2000) Private Security. Perpetuity.
Private investigators
Button, M., Kapend, R., and Stiernstedt, P. (In Press). Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study. Policing and Society, 1-20.
Privatisation
Johnston, L., Button, M. and Williamson, T. (208) Police, Governance and the Private Finance Initiative. Policing and Society, 18: 225-244.
Button, M., Williamson, T. and Johnston, L. (2007) ‘Too many chiefs and not enough chief executives.’ Barriers to the development of PFI in the police service in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7, pp 287-305.
Button, M. (2019) The Privatisation of Policing in the UK. In, Makowicz, B. and Stober, R. (eds) Jahrbuch der Sicherheitswirtschaft 2018. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Button, M. and Wakefield, A. (2013) Privatising of Policing in an International Context. In, Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (ed) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer.
Button, M. and Johnston, L. (2011) Private or Public Policing. In, Ellis, T. and Savage, S. (eds) Debates in Criminal Justice. Abingdon: Routledge.
Policing protest
Button, M., John, T. and Brearley, N. (2002) New Challenges in Public Order Policing: The Professionalisation of Environmental Protest and the Emergence of the Militant Environmental Activist. International Journal of the Sociology of the Law, 30, pp 17-32.
Button, M. and John, T. (2002) ‘Plural Policing’ In Action: A Review of the Policing of Environmental Protests in England and Wales. Policing and Society, 12, pp 111-121.