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.
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
"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
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.
