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Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture
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. Current public policy has patently failed to keep on top of the new trends in both consumption and destruction which make urban centres simultaneously seductive and dangerous. Violent Night uses powerful insider accounts to uncover the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators and the victims of violence reveal the complex emotions that surround both the perpetration and resolution of crime. Violent Night shows that a new approach is needed to successfully rehabilitate a culture struggling and failing to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.
Book Details
- Publisher: Berg Publishers
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2006
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.16in - 0.54in - 0.83lb
- EAN: 9781845201647
- Categories: • Violence in Society• Sociology - Urban
About the Author
Hall, Steve: - Steve Hall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University.
Winlow, Simon: - Simon Winlow is Professor of Social Science at Northumbria University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science. He is the author or co-author of ten research monographs, including Rise of the Right (2017), Death of the Left (2022) and The Politics of Nostalgia (2025).