Policing Race and Nightlife

By Nikhaela Wicks

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529238498
• ISBN13: 9781529238495
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"