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02959aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 2DCCA40286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 200907s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0367185814 020 $a 9780367185817 035 $a (OCoLC)1202436721 040 $a ERL $b eng $e rda $c ERL $d NJR $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a H 100 1 $a Leon, Kenneth Sebastian, $e author. 245 10 $a Corrupt capital : $b alcohol, nightlife, and crimes of the powerful / $c Kenneth Sebastian Leon. 264 1 $a Abingdon : $b Routledge, $c 2021. 300 $a xx, 151 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Crimes of the powerful 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and deviance among the regulators and the regulated in the nightlife environment. This text offers a contemporary and incisive theoretical framework on the criminogenic features and structural contradictions of capitalism. The author both describes and explains how the dominant political economy is rife with structural contradictions that, in turn, generate various manifestations of white-collar crime, organizational deviance, and public corruption. The author uses the bar and nightlife environment to empirically anchor these claims. Methodologically, the research is innovative in advancing inquiry into ethically and logistically challenging environments. The style of writing and framing of the text is one that punches upward and avoids the voyeuristic and reductionist tropes historically associated with "dangerous fieldwork." Through a range of disciplinary perspectives, Corrupt Capital offers both scholarly rigor and inviting prose to advance our understanding of crimes of the relatively powerful and powerless alike. An accessible and compelling text, this book will appeal to readers in criminology, sociology, law and society, political science, and all those interested in learning about the relationship between power, law, and routinized corruption in the nightlife economy. 650 0 $a White collar crimes. 650 0 $a Nightclubs $x Corrupt practices. 650 0 $a Bars (Drinking establishments) $x Corrupt practices. 650 7 $a White collar crimes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01174622 776 08 $i Online version: $a Leon, Kenneth Sebastian. $t Corrupt capital. $d Aingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 $z 9780429589379 $w (OCoLC)1181834292 830 0 $a Crimes of the powerful (London, England) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2DCCA40286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search