'Door Lore'. The Art and Economics of Intimidation

Hobbs, Dick

doi:10.1093/bjc/42.2.352

Cited by 111 publications

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“…One important predictor of workplace violence has been found to be person-situation interaction 32) . It is also possible that in a 'person-situation interaction' some security guards may lack the ability to utilize verbal skills or verbal dexterity to negotiate, or controlled verbal aggression to intimidate 33) . Female security guards may more often have these abilities and utilize their verbal skills, thus more often avoiding work-related violence.…”

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Work-related Violence against Security Guards—Who is Most at Risk?

et al. 2011

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Studies on violence in the work of security guards are largely lacking. This study is unique in that it focuses on security guards (n=1,010) in Finland, and assesses the different forms, prevalence, and risk factors of the work-related violence they often face. Information to a survey instrument was obtained by first interviewing 30 volunteers. Then we made a crosssectional mailed survey that was sent to a randomized group of 2,000 security guards. The response rate was 52. We found the prevalence of verbal aggression, threats of assault, and physical acts against security guards at least once a month to be 39%, 19%, and 15% respectively. As regards risk factors and who is most at risk, our results show that male gender, young age, low work experience, late working hours, and time pressure were associated with all three forms of work-related violence. Unlike other forms of violence, verbal aggression was highly prevalent outside the metropolitan area and directed towards both more and less experienced security guards. In prevention policies for violence, it is important to identify high-risk groups such as those who have less work experience.

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“…It is claimed that properly trained staff can often spot indicators of impending trouble and take discreet action to prevent it (Deehan 1999). Equally, there is evidence that poorly trained and unsupervised door staff can cause violence as well as prevent it (Hobbs et al, 2002). Some areas have set up partnership arrangements to facilitate joint actions by the police, licensing magistrates and managers of licensed premises.…”

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Reducing homicide: A review of the possibilities

Brookman

Maguire

2005

Crime Law Soc Change

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This paper explores the potential for reducing homicide, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. It draws upon data from the Homicide Index, international research on homicide, and the general crime reduction literature. Homicide is highly diverse in its characteristics, causes and dynamics, so effective strategies to reduce it are likely to require tailoring to specific forms. The paper focuses upon four important categories: domestic (partner) homicide; the killing of infants; alcohol-related homicide; and homicide involving guns and knives. Attention is also paid briefly to issues around 'dangerous' offenders and mental disorder, and to homicide victimisation in relation to specific occupations.

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“…Our discussion of training and registration of bouncers (Hobbs and Hall 2000), clearly shows the inability of the local and central State either to enforce and administrate existing laws or to create appropriate legal edicts. With the exception of a frighteningly small embattled shift of police of cers, and the occasional environmental health or licensing of cer, the socio-legal and administrative framework of our cities work hours ideally suited to day-based industrial production: the very foundations upon which our great cities were founded in the nineteenth century.…”

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Receiving shadows: governance and liminality in the night‐time economy¹

Hobbs¹,

Lister

Hadfield³

et al. 2000

British Journal of Sociology

170

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This paper focuses upon the emergence of the night-time economy both materially and culturally as a powerful manifestation of post-industrial society. This emergence features two key processes: firstly a shift in economic development from the industrial to the post-industrial; secondly a significant orientation of urban governance involving a move away from the traditional managerial functions of local service provision, towards an entrepreneurial stance primarily focused on the facilitation of economic growth. Central to this new economic era is the identification and promotion of liminality. The State's apparent inability to control these new leisure zones constitutes the creation of an urban frontier that is governed by commercial imperatives.

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'Door Lore'. The Art and Economics of Intimidation

Cited by 111 publications

References 24 publications

Work-related Violence against Security Guards—Who is Most at Risk?

Work-related Violence against Security Guards—Who is Most at Risk?

Reducing homicide: A review of the possibilities

Receiving shadows: governance and liminality in the night‐time economy¹

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'Door Lore'. The Art and Economics of Intimidation

Cited by 111 publications

References 24 publications

Work-related Violence against Security Guards—Who is Most at Risk?

Work-related Violence against Security Guards—Who is Most at Risk?

Reducing homicide: A review of the possibilities

Receiving shadows: governance and liminality in the night‐time economy1

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Receiving shadows: governance and liminality in the night‐time economy¹