Full Description
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.
Contents
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
