Bouncer Culture and the Nighttime Economy
The Last Cursed Half Hour
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2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-29448-1 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-29448-1 (ISBN)
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This book offers a sharp ethnographic immersion into the high-stakes world of nightclub security in Southern Italy. Following months of firsthand fieldwork, it uncovers how authority is truly negotiated beyond the velvet rope.
Rather than focusing on physical intimidation, the narrative reveals how bouncers—often working-class men navigating insecure livelihoods—manage the night through social intuition and a "principle of reality" that prizes neighborhood ties over formal law. The urban night emerges not as a space governed by policy, but by quiet transactions of respect and obligation. Here, success depends on mastering an unwritten map of who matters, who is connected, and how conflict can be defused without spectacle.
Through vivid case studies, the book argues that extra-legal mediation is not a failure of the system, but the system itself: a flexible, human mechanism for preventing violence. Yet, this reliance on personal credibility over legal protection exposes bouncers to profound risk, turning their work into a precarious dance between belonging and liability in the nocturnal city.
This book will be of interest to criminologists studying informal social control, urban sociologists, anthropologists, security professionals, and policy planners.
Rather than focusing on physical intimidation, the narrative reveals how bouncers—often working-class men navigating insecure livelihoods—manage the night through social intuition and a "principle of reality" that prizes neighborhood ties over formal law. The urban night emerges not as a space governed by policy, but by quiet transactions of respect and obligation. Here, success depends on mastering an unwritten map of who matters, who is connected, and how conflict can be defused without spectacle.
Through vivid case studies, the book argues that extra-legal mediation is not a failure of the system, but the system itself: a flexible, human mechanism for preventing violence. Yet, this reliance on personal credibility over legal protection exposes bouncers to profound risk, turning their work into a precarious dance between belonging and liability in the nocturnal city.
This book will be of interest to criminologists studying informal social control, urban sociologists, anthropologists, security professionals, and policy planners.
Pietro Saitta is full professor of Sociology at the University of Messina. His works, mostly ethnographic in nature, focus mostly on informal economy, environment, urban life and politics. He has worked and conducted research in different Italian and international institutions.
Introduction 1. Elements of Work Organization 2. Managing Violence: Success and Failure 3. Relationships with Control Agencies 4. Ordering the Public 5. An Urban Working Class: Personal Profiles 6. Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Crime and Society |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-29448-4 / 1041294484 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-29448-1 / 9781041294481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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