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Bouncers : violence and governance in the night-time economy / Dick Hobbs ... [and others]
LIBRA TX911.3.S4 B68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Clarendon studies in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bouncers--Great Britain.
- Bouncers.
- Private security services--Great Britain.
- Private security services.
- Violence--Great Britain.
- Violence.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 323 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199252246
- OCLC:
- 51315657
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