Bouncers : violence and governance in the night-time economy /
This text is an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Britain's rapidly expanding night-life is one of the countries most vibrant economic spheres, but it has created huge problems of violence and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This text is an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Britain's rapidly expanding night-life is one of the countries most vibrant economic spheres, but it has created huge problems of violence and disorder. |
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| Item Description: | "Reprinted as paperback 2005 ... First published 2003"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191700484 0191700487 |