Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon

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Northumberland, England

Dixon, B. (2024). Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa. British Journal of Criminology, 64(5), 1063–1079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae011

Dixon, B. (2024). Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu. Theoretical Criminology, 28(3), 267–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231221744

Dixon, B. (2020). Who Needs Critical Friends? Independent Advisory Groups in the Age of the Police and Crime Commissioner. Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice, 14(3), 686–697. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay068

Dixon, B. (2019). Power, politics and the police: lessons from Marikana. Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(2), 203–221. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X19000053

Dixon, B. (2015). A Violent Legacy: Policing Insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana. British Journal of Criminology, 55(6), 1131–1148. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43819347

Dixon, B. (2015). Making further inquiries. SA Crime Quarterly, 53, 5–14. https://doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v53i1.1

Dixon, B. (2013). Marikana, social inequality and the relative autonomy of the police. SA Crime Quarterly, 46, 5–11. https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2013/i46a804

Dixon, B. (2013). The aetiological crisis in South African criminology. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 46(3), 319-334. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0004865813489697

Dixon, B., & Gadd, D. (2012). Look Before You Leap: Hate crime legislation reconsidered. SA Crime Quarterly, 40, 25–30. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/understanding-pointy-face-what-is-criminology/docview/1114889299/se-2

Dixon, B. (2012). What is criminology for? SA Crime Quarterly, 41, 3–10. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/understanding-pointy-face-what-is-criminology/docview/1114889299/se-2

Dixon, B. (2007). The Dirty Work of Democracy: a year on the streets with the SAPS (review). Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 63(1), 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2007.0017

Dixon, B., & Gadd, D. (2006). Getting the Message?: “New” Labour and the Criminalization of “Hate.” Criminology & Criminal Justice, 6(3), 309–328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895806065532

Dixon, B. (2006). Development, Crime Prevention and Social Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Critical Social Policy, 26(1), 169–191. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0261018306059770

Dixon, B., & Van der Spuy, E. (2004). Justice gained? : crime and crime control in South Africa’s transition. UCT Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unimelb/detail.action?docID=3015236 

Dixon, B. (2004). In search of interactive globalisation: Critical criminology in South Africa’s transition. Crime, Law & Social Change, 41(4), 359–384. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CRIS.0000025767.67115.f2

Carrington, K., Dixon, B., Fonseca, D., Goyes, D. R., Liu, J., & Zysman, D. (2019). Criminologies of the Global South: Critical Reflections. Critical Criminology, 27(1), 163–189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09450-y

Gadd, D., & Dixon, B. (2011). Losing the race: Thinking psychosocially about racially motivated crime. Taylor & Francis Group. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unimelb/detail.action?docID=689851#

Dixon, B. (August 16, 2017). What the lack of accountability for Marikana says about Zuma’s government. The Conversation. Accessed October 28, 2024. https://theconversation.com/what-the-lack-of-accountability-for-marikana-says-about-zumas-government-82517

Dixon, B. (June 26, 2015). Marikana tragedy must be understood against the backdrop of structural violence in South Africa. The Conversation. Accessed October 28, 2024. https://theconversation.com/marikana-tragedy-must-be-understood-against-the-backdrop-of-structural-violence-in-south-africa-43868