Topping, John and Byrne, Jonny (2012) Community Safety: A Decade of Development, Delivery, Change and Challenge in Northern Ireland. Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium (BCRC). BCRC. 103 pp.

Topping, John and Byrne, Jonny (2012) Paramilitary Punishments in Belfast: Policing Beneath the Peace. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 4 (1). pp. 41-59.

Marnoch, Gordon, Boyd, Gavin and Topping, John (2010) Mission creep and the compromising of strategicdirection in United Kingdom Police Services. Anexploratory study of the evidence.. In: EGPA Annual Conference, Toulouse. EGPA. 1-17

Topping, John (2010) 'Future Visions of Policing'. In: Policing with the Community? Patten's 'New Beginning' Ten Years On. Committee on the Administration of Justice, Belfast, pp. 88-92. ISBN 978-1-873285-30-5

Topping, John (2008) Community Policing in Northern Ireland: A Resistance Narrative. Policing and Society, 18 (4). pp. 377-396.

Topping, John (2008) Diversifying From Within: Community Policing and the Governance of Security in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Criminology, 48 (6). pp. 778-797.

Topping, John (2008) Training for Neighbourhood Policing: Views from the Community Sector. 33 pp.

Topping, John (2008) Training For Neighbourhood Policing: Views from the Front Line. 22 pp.