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(Research Fellow, University of Leeds), (ESRC funded Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Durham), (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Teesside), (Professor of Sociology, University of Durham)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 215x139x20 mm, kaal: 424 g
  • Sari: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2005
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199288003
  • ISBN-13: 9780199288007
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 215x139x20 mm, kaal: 424 g
  • Sari: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2005
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199288003
  • ISBN-13: 9780199288007
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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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Review from previous edition Hobbs is without doubt Britain's most insightful and penetrating criminological ethnographer, and he uses his skill to provide an extremely useful service...my advice to all interested academics and students is to get a copy, read it, and keep it as a principal guide book to take with you on your theoretical excursions into the subject of professional crime. * International Journal of Sociology and Law * His book contains the thrills of voyeuristic participation in a world of almost untramelled opportunities for hedonistic pleasure, with the frisson of realisation that burgalries and robberies are the price we pay as victims. This book conveys a fascinating if disturbing sense of the complex, messy lives of those in the bad business. * Times Literary Supplement * Dick Hobbs has succeeded at every level...this is a very good book. It is written with confidence and gusto, in a way which makes the subjects ... come to life. * New Law Journal * 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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Winner of 2003 Radzinowicz Prize.
Introduction 1(12)
Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night-time Economy
13(40)
`Let's go get stoned' Ray Charles
13(2)
Crawling from the wreckage: cultural industries and urban regeneration
15(4)
The business of pleasure: communities of consumption in every-night-life
19(4)
Good time working
23(2)
The night-time economy
25(3)
Regulation of the night-time economy
28(4)
The new urban governance
32(4)
Booze, the urban night, and the human ecology of violence
36(7)
Public police: the night-time omission
43(1)
Receiving shadows
44(5)
And one more for the road
49(2)
A Case Study of Manchester
51(2)
After-dark `Fun' and its Control in the Industrial City
53(18)
The industrial city
53(2)
Leisure in the industrial city
55(7)
The `dance craze'
62(9)
Post-industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg
71(38)
The phoenix and the night-owl
71(5)
Madchester
76(5)
Urban `exotica'
81(1)
Gaychester
82(6)
The number of licensed premises
85(1)
The number of consumers
86(1)
The economic value of the night-time economy
87(1)
A new urbanity?
87(1)
Dodgin' the rain and bullets
88(1)
Gangchester
89(2)
Gunchester
91(8)
Street violence, alcohol, and young men: an old problem for the `new' city
99(7)
The Manchester Citycentresafe Initiative
106(1)
Conclusion
107(2)
Tommy Smith's Story: Four Decades On The Door
109(10)
A Word At The Door: Bouncers On Their Work
119(46)
Access denied
120(3)
The barred
123(4)
Local knowledge
127(5)
Other difficulties: disorderly women
132(4)
Different doors
136(2)
Dealing with trouble: talking nicely
138(4)
Dealing with trouble: looking the part
142(3)
Local bodies
145(2)
Dealing with trouble: rough and tumble
147(4)
Dealing with trouble: fighting
151(2)
The night-time excuse me
153(4)
Violent night
157(5)
The moral mandate of bouncing
162(3)
Manners Maketh the Man: Licensing `Door Supervisors' and the Discourses of Professionalism and Safety
165(46)
Introduction
165(2)
Context: situating the registration agenda
167(2)
Registration as a regulatory mechanism
169(5)
Legal powers to regulate and the coverage shortfall
174(3)
The vetting requirement
177(5)
The training requirement
182(14)
Training in the ways of the law: `justice', culture, and commercial confidences
187(5)
Let's get physical: training to be (like) Steven Seagal
192(4)
Watching the watchers: enforcement, revocation, and accountability
196(7)
Market development, market diversification, and the division of labour
203(4)
Licensing badges: symbols of safety, symptoms of threat
207(4)
Market Force: Class, Violence, and Liminal Business on the Night-time Frontier
211(34)
Class, commerce, and violent competence
211(1)
Pauline's story: where security meets protection
212(7)
The muscle market
219(3)
Bouncing as class work
222(3)
Market force
225(6)
Bouncing as police work
231(3)
The monopoly of muscle
234(3)
Frontier business
237(3)
Door war
240(2)
Conclusion: class, capital, and trajectories of force
242(3)
Night Futures: The Marketization of License and Control
245(24)
Development, diversification, and homogeneity
246(2)
Contemporary controls
248(5)
So, you think you're tough?
253(5)
Going with the flow
258(3)
(De)regulating the night-time city
261(8)
Big People, Dirty Work: A Conclusion
269(12)
Win or lose we are on the booze: a moral contradiction
270(6)
Night moves
276(1)
The queue for the last kebab
277(4)
References 281(34)
Index 315


Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham. He has published widely on various aspects of criminal cultures, policing, research methods, professional and organised crime, and the night-time economy. He has published edited collections of papers on ethnographic research, and professional crime, and his two single authored books (both published with OUP) are Doing the Business (1988) which won the Abrams Prize, and Bad Business (1995). He was, with Steve Hall, the co-grant holder for the ESRC "Bouncers" project



Philip Hadfield is currently an ESRC funded postgraduate student at the University of Durham. He recently graduated from the Universities of Keele and Cambridge, has published widely on regulatory and licensing aspects of the night-time economy and works part time as a DJ.



Stuart Lister is a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the Home office Alcohol and Crime Steering Group, and has published on various aspects of the night-time economy with particular reference to policing, regulation, and training.



Simon Winlow is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside. He gained his Ph.D. from Durham University in 1999 and has published on crime, masculinities, research methods and various aspects of the night-time economy. His first book, Badfellas,(Berg 2001)an ethnography based upon his Ph.D