Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy

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Dick Hobbs (Professor of Sociology, University of Durham) Philip Hadfield (ESRC funded Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Durham)

Bouncers

Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy

Dick Hobbs (Professor of Sociology, University of Durham), Philip Hadfield (ESRC funded Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Durham), Stuart Lister (Research Fellow, University of Leeds) , Simon Winlow (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Teesside)

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English

Oxford University Press
01 April 2003

Cultural studies; Violence in society; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Crime & criminology; Security services

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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.

By: Dick Hobbs (Professor of Sociology University of Durham), Philip Hadfield (ESRC funded Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Durham), Stuart Lister (Research Fellow, University of Leeds), Simon Winlow (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Teesside), Simon Winlow (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Teesside)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 496g
ISBN: 9780199252244
ISBN 10: 0199252246
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 April 2003
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy

`Review from other book by this author 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