Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy

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

Overview

This book is the first attempt 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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199288007
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Series:	Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night time Economy2. After-Dark 'Fun' and Control in the Industrial City3. Post-Industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg4. Tommy Smiths Story: Four Decades On The Door5. Russ's Bar: A Bouncers Tale6 A Word At The Door: Bouncers On Their Work.7. Dogs That Pass In The Night: Training Bouncers8. Badging Up: Registering Bouncers9. Market Force: Class, Violence and Liminal Business on the Night- Time Frontier10 Conclusion.