Bouncers

This book is the first attempt to understand Britain's nightime economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Walk down any high street after dark and the shadows of bouncers will loom large, for they are the most visible form of control available in the youth orientated zones of our cities. Britain's rapidly expanding night- life is one of its most vibrant economic spheres, but it has created huge problems of violence and disorder. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews, this controversial book charts the emergence of bouncers as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post industrial Britain.