Dr Deborah Talbot is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University, UK, and has written widely on licensing law, cultural development and the emergence of night-time economies in the UK.

• Contents: Nightlife and outsider areas in an era of spatial and subcultural closure: recasting the politics of popular culture; Negotiating research into the regulation of 'outsider' areas: The growth, criminalisation and decline of unregulated night spaces in Southview; Urban regeneration, conflict and change; From nightlife to the 'night-time economy'; Licensing and the loss of political and moral authority; Licensing, policing and the informal mechanics of exclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

’Regulating the Night is a wonderful contribution to the study of that subcultural space called nightlife, especially as it flourishes in the contemporary inner city. Deborah Talbot has produced a book bristling with ideas and insights (and indeed attitude) about the de-regulation and re-regulation of this space, using her own extensive interviews with the people who count - the residents, the club owners, the police officers, the councillors, the officials, the regenerators, the clubbers, the dealers and the drinkers.’ John Fitzpatrick, University of Kent, UK 'Regulating the Night presents a clear, convincing and detailed argument and offers rich empirical fi ndings regarding race, culture and exclusion in terms of the licensing, planning and the policing of the night-time economy.' Crime Media Culture