Bar wars : contesting the night in contemporary British cities / [electronic resource]
Hadfield, Phil.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Located within a long tradition of urban ethnography, this book offers analyses of social control in bars and clubs, courtroom battles between local communities and the drinks industry, and street-level policing. It is useful for those wishing to understand the governance of crime and social order in contemporary cities.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and index.
The uses of darkness -- Paradise lost : the rise of the night-time High Street -- Behind bars : social control in licensed premises -- Contesting public space -- The combatants -- Rose-coloured spectacles versus the prophecies of doom (the shaping of trial discourse) -- Notes from the frontline : licensing the courts -- Contesting the night -- Shadowing the night people : a methodological postscript.
Located within a long tradition of urban ethnography, this book offers analyses of social control in bars and clubs, courtroom battles between local communities and the drinks industry, and street-level policing. It is useful for those wishing to understand the governance of crime and social order in contemporary cities.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Sociology, Urban
Central business districts
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Public spaces
Binge drinking
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Social control
Sociology, Urban
Central business districts
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Public spaces
Communities - Urban Groups
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences