Lea, John and Hallsworth, Simon (2012) Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security In: Squires, Peter and Lea, John, eds. Criminalisation and advanced marginality: a critical assessment of the work of Loic Wacquant. Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781447300014

Lea, John and Hallsworth, Simon (2012) Theory and politics: bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security In: Squires, Peter and Lea, John, eds. Criminalisation and advanced marginality: critically exploring the work of Loic Wacquant. The Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781447300014

Squires, Peter and Lea, John (2012) Introduction: reading Wacquant, opening questions and overview In: Squires, Peter and Lea, John, eds. Criminalisation and advanced marginality: a critical assessment of the work of Loic Wacquant. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447300014

Cavalcanti, Roxana, Goldsmith, Carlie, Lea, John, Measor, Lynda, Squires, Peter and Wolff, David (2011) Connected communities. Youth and community: connections and disconnections Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities Programme), Brighton.

Hallsworth, Simon and Lea, John (2011) Reconstructing Leviathan: emerging contours of the security state Theoretical Criminology, 15 (2). pp. 141-157. ISSN 1362-4806

Lea, John (2010) Left realism, community and state-building Crime Law and Social Change, 54 (2). pp. 141-158. ISSN 0925-4994

Fitzgibbbon, Wendy and Lea, John (2010) Police, probation and the bifurcation of community The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49 (3). pp. 215-230. ISSN 0265-5527

Lea, John (2010) Karl Marx (1818-83) and Frederich Engels (1820-95) In: Hayward, Keith, Maruna, Shadd and Mooney, Jayne, eds. Fifty key thinkers in criminology. Routledge, London and Abingdon (simultaneously in New York + the USA and Canada), pp. 18-24. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-42910-8; 13: 978-0-415-42911-5