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Bouncers : Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy

by Dick Hobbs , Philip Hadfield , Simon Winlow , Stuart Lister

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
ISBN-10 0199252246
ISBN-13 9780199252244
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 20th, 2003
Print length 336 Pages
Weight 588 grams
Dimensions 22.20 x 15.90 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification: City & town planning - architectural aspects Cultural studies Violence in society Illness & addiction: social aspects Police & security services
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This work attempts to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation, and interviews, this title charts the emergence of the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial 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.

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