Bouncers - Hobbs, Dick (Professor of Sociology, University of Durham) a Hadfield, Philip (ESRC funded Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Durham) a Lister, Stuart (Research Fellow, University of Leeds) a Winlow, Simon (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Univer

Features an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews, this book charts the emergence of bouncers as one of the graphic symbols in the iconography of post industrial Britain.