Policing Race and Nightlife

Nikhaela Wicks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3849-5 (ISBN)

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This book exposes how policing and licensing practices shape UK nightlife as a racialised 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.

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

1. Introduction

2. Situating the Research: Methods and Reflections

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

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

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

6. Excluding Gypsy and Travellers From Nightlife: Historical Policing Practices, Surveillance and Dress Codes

7. Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-3849-8 / 1529238498
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3849-5 / 9781529238495
Zustand	Neuware