Bar wars
Subtitle: contesting the night in contemporary British cities
By: Phil Hadfield
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780199297856; 9780199297863
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- Great Britain; Central business districts -- Great Britain; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Public spaces -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-316) and index
Table of contents: title: The uses of darkness; title: Paradise lost; title: Behind bars; title: Contesting public space; title: The combatants; title: Rose-coloured spectacles versus the prophecies of doom (the shaping of trial discourse); title: Notes from the frontline; title: Contesting the night; title: Shadowing the night people