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Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture

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Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture
Author: Simon Winlow, Steve Hall
Subjects: Attitudes ; Counterculture ; England ; England, North East ; Identity ; Recreation ; Social life ; Subculture ; United Kingdom ; Urban violence ; Urban youth ; Violence ; Youth ; Youth and violence ; Youth culture
Description: 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.
Publisher: London: Bloomsbury Publishing
Creation Date: 2006
Format: 240 pages
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781847882257
ISBN: 1847882250
ISBN: 9781845201630
ISBN: 1845201639
EISBN: 9781847882257
EISBN: 1847882250
DOI: 10.5040/9781474215923
OCLC: 893334831
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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