1 Introduction; 2 The Nightclub as a Risk Market; 3 Policing and Bouncing; 4 Bouncer Culture; 5 Getting In; 6 Getting Noticed; 7 Getting Home; Conclusions; Epilogue: Confessions of a Playa Hata
How the urban night is being redefined by club culture, violence and the bouncers who police it
George S. Rigakos is associate professor of law, criminology, and political economy at Carleton University, and the author of The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control, 2002.
"The author has a sophisticated understanding of the theoretical issues, and a nice eye for the unusual detail. Nightclub will be of interest to academics at all levels, and the sophisticated general reader." Mark Neocleous, Brunel University
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