| Policing and human rights: the meaning of violence and justice in the everyday policing of Johannesburg J Hornberger Routledge, 2011 | 204* | 2011 |
| From general to commissioner to general—On the popular state of policing in South Africa J Hornberger Law & Social Inquiry 38 (3), 598-614, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| “My police—your police”: the informal privatisation of the police in the inner city of Johannesburg J Hornberger African Studies 63 (2), 213-230, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| Human rights and policing: exigency or incongruence? J Hornberger Annual Review of Law and Social Science 6, 259-283, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Beyond ‘good cop’/‘bad cop’: understanding informality and police corruption in South Africa: Introduction D Vigneswaran, J Hornberger JohannesburgUniversity of the Witwatersrand, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Nocturnal Johannesburg J Hornberger Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis, 285-96, 2008 | 19 | 2008 |
| We need a complicit police! Political policing then and now J Hornberger SA Crime Quarterly 2014 (48), 17-24, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Ma-slaan-pa dockets: Negotiations at the boundary between the private and the public JC Hornberger The Governance of Daily Life in Africa, 171-204, 2008 | 16 | 2008 |
| Policing Xenophobia–Xenophobic Policing: a clash of legitimacy J Hornberger Go Home or Die Here, 132-143, 2008 | 16 | 2008 |
| Complicity: becoming the police (South Africa) J Hornberger Writing the world of policing: the difference ethnography makes, 42-61, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Translating human rights in the margins: A police–migrant encounter in Johannesburg J Hornberger State Violence and Human Rights, 89-111, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| A ritual of corruption: how young middle-class South Africans get their driver’s licenses J Hornberger Current Anthropology 59 (S18), S138-S148, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Who is the fake one now? Questions of quackery, worldliness and legitimacy J Hornberger Critical Public Health 29 (4), 484-493, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| From drug safety to drug security: A contemporary shift in the policing of health J Hornberger Medical Anthropology Quarterly 32 (3), 365-383, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| From Drug Safety to Drug Security. The Policing of Counterfeit Medications J Hornberger, E Cossa Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| The belly of the police J Hornberger | 9 | 2017 |
| «Maman bat papa 1» La loi sur la violence domestique ŕ Sophiatown, Johannesburg J Hornberger Politique africaine, 83-99, 2003 | 8 | 2003 |
| Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa M Morelle, F Le Marcis, J Hornberger Routledge, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Beyond Good Cop D Vigneswaran, J Hornberger Bad Cop’: Understanding Informality and Police Corruption in South Africa, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| “God Moves Big Time in Sophiatown” Community Policing and “The Fight Against Evil” in a Poor Johannesburg Neighborhood J Hornberger Religion in Disputes: Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing …, 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
