Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

In many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a'McDonaldisation', where big
branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an …

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents
and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted while residing next to a crack house in El
Barrio, New York, for almost five years, this article analyses how the social and economic …

Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence? This is the time and place
when cities are taken over by young men in search of alcohol, drugs, another club or a fight …

This book provides a definitive review of knowledge about bar room environments and their
regulation, and provides directions for the prevention of aggression, violence and injury in …

Aims To clarify environmental predictors of bar‐room aggression by differentiating
relationships due to nightly variations versus across bar variations, frequency versus …

This paper shows that, despite receiving significant attention, the relationship between
alcohol, drunkenness and public space has been undertheorized. We show that where …

Qualitative methods were used to examine aggression among young males in bars in terms
the role of alcohol, social context, cultural values, rewards and punishment, and motivations …