Petley, J., Curran, J. and Gaber, I. (2018) 'Culture Wars: the Media and the British Left'. London: Routledge. ISSN 13: 9781138223035

Petley, J. (2015) 'Richard Hoggart and Pilkington: populism and public service broadcasting'. Ethical Space, 12 (1). pp. 4 - 14. ISSN: 1742-0105

Petley, J. (2015) 'Witch-hunt: The word, the press and the Devils'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 12 (4). pp. 515 - 538. ISSN: 1743-4521 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2015) 'The Censors' Tools', in Conboy, M. and Steel, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to British Media History. London : Routledge. pp. 437 - 448. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-53718-6.

Petley, J. (2014) 'The regulation of pornography on video-on-demand in the United Kingdom'. Porn Studies, 1 (3). pp. 260 - 284. ISSN: 2326-8743 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2014) ''Kill a kid and get a house': rationality versus retribution in the case of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, 1993-2001.', in Wagg, S. and Pilcher, J. (eds.) Thatcher's Grandchildren? Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1 - 26. ISBN 10: 1137281545. ISBN 13: 978-1-137-28154-8. Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2014) 'Facts, informed opinion and mere opinion', in Mair, J., Tait, R. and Keeble, R. (eds.) Is the BBC in Crisis?. Bury St Edmunds : Abramis Academic Publishing. , 1. pp. 121 - 134. ISBN 10: 1845496213. Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2014) ''Horror and the censors'', in Benshoff, H. (ed.) A Companion to the Horror Film. Chichester : Wiley Blackwell. pp. 130 - 147. ISBN 13: 9780470672600.

Petley, J. (2014) 'The state journalism is in: Edward Snowden and the British Press'. Ethical Space, 11 (1-2). pp. 9 - 18. ISSN: 1742-0105 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2013) 'Leveson and Operation Motorman: Lessons from a Debacle over Data Protection', in Gordon, J., Rowinski, P. and Stewart, G. (eds.) Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media. Bern : Peter Lang. pp. 5 - 27. ISBN 13: 978-3-0343-0904-2.

Petley, J. (2013) 'Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure'. London: I. B. Tauris. ISSN 10: 1780765878 ISSN 13: 9781780765877

Petley, J. (2013) 'Public Interest or Public Shaming?', in Petley, J. (ed.) Media and Public Shaming. London : I. B. Tauris. pp. 19 - 42. ISBN 10: 1780765878. ISBN 13: 9781780765877.

Petley, J. (2013) 'On Privacy: From Mill to Mosley', in Petley, J. (ed.) Media and Public Shaming. London : I. B. Tauris. pp. 59 - 77. ISBN 10: 1780765878. ISBN 13: 9781780765877.

Petley, J. (2013) 'Panic stations: Surveillance in the UK'. Index on Censorship, 42 (1). pp. 70 - 74. ISSN: 0306-4220

Petley, J. (2013) 'Shouldn't Freedom be Good for All?'. British Journalism Review, 24 (3). pp. 33 - 38. ISSN: 0956-4748

Petley, J. (2013) ''The Following Content is not Acceptable'', in Attwood, F., Campbell, V., Hunter, IQ. and Lockyer, S. (eds.) Controversial Images: Media Representations on the Edge. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 131 - 153. ISBN 13: 978-0-230-28405-0.

Critcher, C., Hughes, J., Petley, J. and Rohloff, A. (2013) 'Moral panics in the contemporary world'. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 10: 1623568935 ISSN 13: 978-1623568931

Petley, J. (2013) 'The Censor and the State in Britain', in Biltereyst, D. and Vande Winkel, R. (eds.) Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 149 - 165. ISBN 13: 978-0-230-34081-7.

Petley, J. (2013) ''Are We Insane': The 'Video Nasty' Moral Panic.', in Critcher, C., Hughes, J., Petley, J. and Rohloff, A. (eds.) Moral Panics in the Contemporary World. London : Bloomsbury. pp. 73 - 98. ISBN 13: 978-1-6235-6893-1.

Petley, J. (2012) 'The Leveson Inquiry: Journalism ethics and press freedom'. Journalism, 13 (4). pp. 529 - 538. ISSN: 1464-8849

Petley, J. (2012) 'Jurgen Habermas: The Modern Media and the Public Sphere', in Berry, D. (ed.) Revisiting the Frankfurt School. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing. pp. 139 - 159. ISBN 10: 1409411818. ISBN 13: 9781409411819.

Petley, J. (2012) 'The Struggle Continues: the Miners' Campaign Video Tapes', in Popple, S. and Macdonald, IW. (eds.) Digging the Seam: Popular Culture of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars. pp. 87 - 97. ISBN 10: 1-4438-4081-5. ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-4081-1.

Petley, J. (2012) 'Head-on Collisions: the BBFC in the 1990s', in Lamberti, E. (ed.) Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age. London : BFI/Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 13: 978-1-84457-476-6.

Petley, J. (2011) 'Film and video censorship in modern Britain'. ISSN 13: 9780748625383

Petley, J. (2011) 'Film and video censorship in contemporary Britain'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 10: 0748625380 ISSN 13: 9780748625383

Petley, J. (2011) 'Pointing the finger: Islam and Muslims in the British media'. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. ISSN 10: 1851688137 ISSN 13: 978-1851688135

Petley, J. (2011) 'Rules, Recycling, Filters and Conspiracies: Nick Davies and the Propaganda Model', in Franklin, B. and Carlson, M. (eds.) Journalists, Sources and Credibility: New Perspectives. London : Routledge. pp. 75 - 89. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-88426-6.

Petley, J. (2011) 'Doublethink: 'Deregulation', censure and 'adult sex' on television', in Bramham, P. and Wagg, S. (eds.) The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure. Basingstoke : Palgrave. pp. 245 - 267. ISBN 13: 978-0-230-21684-6.

David, M., Rohloff, A., Petley, J. and Hughes, J. (2011) 'The idea of moral panic – ten dimensions of dispute'. Crime, Media, Culture, 7 (3). pp. 215 - 228. ISSN: 1741-6590

Wayne, M., Petley, J., Murray, C. and Henderson, L. (2010) 'Television news, politics and young people: Generation disconnected?'. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 0-230-21935-7 ISSN 13: 9780230219359

Petley, J. (2009) 'Nazi Horrors: History, Myth, Sexploitation', in Conrich, I. (ed.) Horror Zone. I B Tauris & Co Ltd. ISBN 10: 1848852622. ISBN 13: 9781848852624.

Petley, J. (2009) 'Book review of Why democracies need an unlovable press by Michael Schudson, published in Cambridge by Polity Press'. Journalism Studies, 10 (6). pp. 870 - 871. ISSN: 1461-670X

Petley, J. (2009) 'Trash or treasure? Censorship and the changing meaning of the video nasties'. J Brit cine television, 6 (2). pp. 326 - 331. ISSN: 1743-4521

Petley, J. (2009) 'Censorship: a Beginner's Guide'. Oxford: One World. ISSN 13: 978-1-85168-674-2

Petley, J. (2009) 'What Fourth Estate?', in Bailey, M. (ed.) Narrating Media History. Abingdon : Routledge. pp. 184 - 195. ISBN 10: 0-415-41916-6.

Petley, J. (2009) 'Impartiality in Television News: Profitability Versus Public Service', in Allan, S. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism Studies. Routledge. ISBN 10: 041546529X. ISBN 13: 9780415465298.

Petley, J. (2009) 'Pornography, panopticism and the criminal justice and immigration Act 2008'. Sociology Compass, 3 (3). pp. 417 - 432. ISSN: 1751-9020 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2009) 'What rights? Whose responsibilities?'. Soundings, 43 (43). pp. 77 - 88. ISSN: 1362-6620

Petley, J. (2009) 'Web control'. Index on censorship, 38 (1). pp. 78 - 90. ISSN: 0306-4220

Julius, A. and Petley, J. (2009) 'Crimes of transgression'. Index on censorship, 38 (1). pp. 50 - 58. ISSN: 0306-4220

Petley, J. (2007) 'New labour, old morality'. Index on Censorship, 36 (2). pp. 132 - 140. ISSN: 0306-4220 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2007) 'Censoring the word'. Oxford: Seagull Books. ISSN 10: 1-90542-254-7

Petley, J. (2006) 'The retreat of reason'. Index on Censorship, 35 (4). pp. 8 - 14. ISSN: 0306-4220 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2006) 'Appearance and reality'. Index on censorship, 35 (1). pp. 15 - 20. ISSN: 0306-4220

Petley, J. (2006) 'Nonsense on stilts'. Index on Censorship, 35 (3). pp. 14 - 20. ISSN: 0306-4220 Open Access Link

Petley, J., Curran, J. and Gaber, I. (2005) 'Culture wars: the media and the British left'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 10: 0-7486-1917-8

Petley, J. (2004) 'Popular cinema of the Third Reich'. Screen, 45 (1). pp. 83 - 89. ISSN: 0036-9543

Petley, J. (2004) 'Is there a British film industry?'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1 (1). pp. 129 - 136. ISSN: 1743-4521 Open Access Link

Petley, J. (2003) 'Consumers or citizens? Re-regulating communications'. Radical philosophy. pp. 7 - 10. ISSN: 0300-211X

Petley, J. (2002) 'From Brit-flicks to shit-flicks: The cost of public subsidy'. The Journal of Popular British Cinema, 5 (1). pp. 37 - 52. ISSN: 1461-104X