Bouncers

Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham. He has published widely on various aspects of criminal cultures, policing, research methods, professional and organised crime, and the night-time economy. He has published edited collections of papers on ethnographic research, and professional crime, and his two single authored books (both published with OUP) are Doing the Business (1988) which won the Abrams Prize, and Bad Business (1995). He was, with Steve Hall, the co-grant holder for the ESRC "Bouncers" projectPhilip Hadfield is currently an ESRC funded postgraduate student at the University of Durham. He recently graduated from the Universities of Keele and Cambridge, has published widely on regulatory and licensing aspects of the night-time economy and works part time as a DJ.Stuart Lister is a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the Home Office Alcohol and Crime Steering Group, and has published on various aspects of the night-time economy with particular reference to policing, regulation, and training.Simon Winlow is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside. He gained his Ph.D. from Durham University in 1999 and has published on crime, masculinities, research methods and various aspects of the night-time economy. His first book, Badfellas,(Berg 2001)an ethnography based upon his Ph.D.

• 1. Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night-time Economy ; 2. After-Dark: 'Fun' and Control in the Industrial City ; 3. Post-Industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg ; 4. Tommy Smith's Story: Four Decades on the Door ; 5. Russ's Bar: A Bouncer's Tale ; 6. A Word at the Door: Bouncers on their Work. ; 7. Dogs that Pass in the Night: Training Bouncers ; 8. Badging Up: Registering Bouncers ; 9. Market Force: Class, Violence, and Liminal Business on the Night-time Frontier ; 10. Conclusion.

Dick Hobb's research has always traversed the large distance between the criminal and the criminologist and his writing the even larger gap between the novelist and the academic. This has meant that his books are as full of characters as facts and of wry comment as dry analysis and Bouncers is no exception.