Women’s self-regulation in the night time economy: a nudge towards the big society
Rachel Taylor-Swann, Cardiff School of Social Sciences
Room -1.60 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm (please note change of room for this meeting)
Abstract
Drawing on findings from research into women’s responsibility for their safety in the night-time economy, the study explores the particular safety techniques and avoidance strategies used by three status groups (professionals, students and locals).The focus on self-regulation has significance in terms of challenging a dominant discourse that ‘flattens’ the NTE into a single entity and limits understanding of its public health and safety problems, particularly alcohol-related violence against the person, to the behaviour of ‘irresponsible’ consumers and licensed venues. In this ‘age of austerity’ and particularly cuts to public policing, the concept of self-regulation and policing has significant implications for practitioners, policy makers and consumers, particularly when considered within the current political fetish for behavioural economics or ‘nudge’.
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