Policing Race and Nightlife

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3849-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

This book exposes how policing and licensing practices shape UK nightlife as a racialized space, with harmful consequences for Black and Gypsy and Traveller communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with key nightlife stakeholders, it reveals how

governance structures – from police-led meetings to licensing decisions – work to suppress racialized night-time events and Black male performers.

Through critical analysis of police diversity training, the discriminatory actions of door staff and security teams as well as street-level policing practices, this study offers a timely intervention into debates on race, surveillance and nightlife. It is essential reading for scholars of policing, racial justice and night-time economy studies in the UK and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wicks, Nikhaela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

2. Situating the Research: Methods and Reflections

3. Police Training and the Diversity Agenda: Maintaining the Racial Status Quo

4. Night-Time Licensing and the Power of the Police

5. Policing ‘Urban Nights’ and the Acceptable White Local Frame

6. Excluding Gypsies and Travellers from Nightlife: Historical Policing Practices, Surveillance and Dress Codes

7. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Wicks, Nikhaela
Nikhaela Wicks is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent.