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2003 Radzinowicz Prize
Bouncers
Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy
Dick Hobbs, Philip Hadfield, Stuart Lister, and Simon Winlow
336 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-925224-4
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Hardback
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20 March 2003
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- Graphic first hand descriptions of the workings of the night-time economy
- The first in depth study of bouncers
- Critiques current methods of policing and regulation
- A unique snapshot of contemporary Britain
In recent years, the expansion of night-time leisure has emerged as a key indicator of post-industrial urban prosperity, attracting investment, creating employment, and re-generating the built environment.
These leisure economies are youth-dominated, focusing upon the sale and consumption of alcohol. Unprecedented numbers of young people now flock to town centres that are crammed with bars, pubs, and clubs, and the resulting violent disorder has over run police resources that remain geared to the drinking patterns and alcohol cultures of previous generations.
Post-industrial re-structuring has spawned an increasingly complex mass
of night-time leisure options through which numerous licit and illicit commercial opportunities flow. Yet, regardless of the fashionable and romantic notions of many contemporary urban theorists, it is alcohol, mass intoxication, and profit rather than 'cultural regeneration,' which lies at the heart of this rapidly expanding dimension of post-industrial urbanism.
Private security in the bulky form of bouncers fills the void left by the public police. These men (only 7% are women), whose activities are barely regulated by the State, are dominated by a powerful subculture rooted in routine violence and intimidation.
Using ethnography, participant observation, and extensive interviews with all the main players, this controversial book charts the emergence of
the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial Britain.
Readership: Criminologists, sociologists, geographers, town planners, students of urban studies, students of police studies, and political scientists. Practitioners in the fields of planning, policing, and other related areas.
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Dick Hobbs, Dept of Sociology, University of Durham, Philip Hadfield, ESRC funded postgraduate student at the University of Durham, Stuart Lister, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and Simon Winlow, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside
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"Dick Hobb's research has always traversed the large distance between the criminal and the criminologist and his writing the even larger gap between the novelist and the academic. This has meant that his books are as full of characters as facts and of wry comment as dry analysis and Bouncers is no exception." - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice "... a comprehensive account of bouncers: their occupational culture, their role in the alcohol fuelled expanding night-time economy and the failure of all strata of regulation to contain the violence which is endemic within it." - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice "... may be read and enjoyed at a variety of levels ... may also be read with profit by
those interested in richly-woven descriptions of the life of doormen, their adventures, their sense of chivalry and of 'rough justice', and the legal and extra-legal codes that govern their conduct ... a serious social study that charms and enthrals." - Law Society Journal "... a pioneering and exciting study that opens up for police researchers, criminologists, urban ethnographers and sociologists a fascinating look into the night-time economy..." - Theoretical Criminology
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1: Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night-time Economy
2: After-Dark: 'Fun' and Control in the Industrial City
3: Post-Industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg
4: Tommy Smith's Story: Four Decades on the Door
5: Russ's Bar: A Bouncer's Tale
6: A Word at the Door: Bouncers on their Work.
7: Dogs that Pass in the Night: Training Bouncers
8: Badging Up: Registering Bouncers
9: Market Force: Class, Violence, and Liminal Business on the Night-time Frontier
10: Conclusion.
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