Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780199559749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 450 str.

Phil Hadfield

Opis

Nightlife and Crime is a collection of scholarly reports on crime and disorder in the Night Time Economies (NTEs) of 17 countries. This innovative volume provides an outward looking and international perspective on the area in an accessible and thought-provoking style. The issues raised in Nightlife and Crime go the heart of contemporary debates on 'binge-drinking' and anti-social behavior which have been heavily debated in Britain following the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003 and the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. Such themes are also at the forefront of public policy discourse and media interest in other countries such as Australia and Spain.

Recenzje

Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective is an incredibly valuable contribution to this field and will hopefully enjoy a wider audience beyond scholars of nightlife and alcohol-related crime issues.

O autorze

Dr Phil Hadfield is a Senior Rearch Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds. Dr Hadfield has experience teaching courses on street crime, policing, criminological aspects of the Night Time Economy and research methods. Over the past ten years he has been involved in a variety of research projects focussing on crime and disorder in contemporary Night Time Economies (NTEs), culminating in the publication of two Clarendon Studies in Criminology series titles (Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities, and Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy). In conjunction with Continental European colleagues, Dr Hadfield is developing innovative comparative approaches on nightlife and crime. He is a member of an interdisciplinary consortium of 31 participants from ten European countries working on the 'informal economy' assessing deviance, crime and prevention in Europe.