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Bouncers : violence and governance in the night-time economy / Dick Hobbs [and others].

Title: Bouncers : violence and governance in the night-time economy / Dick Hobbs [and others].
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Hobbs, Dick, 1951-

Description

ix, 323 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This text is an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Britain's rapidly expanding night-life is one of the countries most vibrant economic spheres, but it has created huge problems of violence and disorder.

Series Statement

Clarendon studies in criminology

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.
Clarendon studies in criminology.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night-time Economy -- A Case Study of Manchester -- 2. After-dark 'Fun' and its Control in the Industrial City -- 3. Post-industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg -- 4. Tommy Smith's Story: Four Decades On The Door -- 5. A Word At The Door: Bouncers On Their Work -- 6. Manners Maketh the Man: Licensing 'Door Supervisors' and the Discourses of Professionalism and Safety -- 7. Market Force: Class, Violence, and Liminal Business on the Night-time Frontier -- 8. Night Futures: The Marketization of License and Control -- 9. Big People, Dirty Work: A Conclusion.

ISBN

0199252246
9780199252244
0199288003
9780199288007

LCCN

^^2003271815

OCLC

51315657
SCSB-9970835

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Harvard Library