Nightclub

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.

• 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

"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