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Bar wars : contesting the night in contemporary British cities
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Bar wars : contesting the night in contemporary British cities

Author: Phil Hadfield
Publisher: O xford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology.
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"In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the judiciary, local residents, and revellers, all hold variously  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hadfield, Phil.
Bar wars.
O xford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
(OCoLC)647018228
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Phil Hadfield
ISBN: 9780199297856 0199297851 9780199297863 019929786X
OCLC Number: 65399943
Description: vi, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The uses of darkness --
Paradise lost --
Behind bars --
Contesting public space --
The combatants --
Rose-coloured spectacles versus the prophecies of doom (the shaping of trial discourse) --
Notes from the frontline --
Contesting the night --
Shadowing the night people.
Series Title: Clarendon studies in criminology.
Responsibility: Phil Hadfield.
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The night-time economy poses one of the biggest crime problems in Britain. This book highlights how and why this threat developed at the time it did. It charts the rise of a 'night-time high street'.  Read more...

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Hadfield's analysis of licensing procedure was both original and remarkably insightful, and points the way for further ethnographic work on licensing trials, given their huge potential to shape Read more...

 
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