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Citation |
Hadfield P. Br. J. Criminol. 2008; 48(4): 429-447. |
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(Copyright © 2008, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press) |
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Abstract |
Drawn from an ethnographic investigation of Central London's contemporary nightclub scene, this paper seeks to map previously obscure elements of the private governance of security' and the wider network of nodes' which govern Britain's night-time economy (NTE). Attention to the constitution and operation of nodes and the interfaces between them provide insight into the co-production of particular forms of social order and situated meanings of the term security'. The paper identifies a criminogenic NTE in flux, driven by entrepreneurial zeal, a stratified consumer culture and forms of regulatory closure that conspire to exacerbate underlying tendencies toward social exclusion in the night-time city. |