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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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Details
- Additional Authors
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library