Bars, drugs and football thugs: Alcohol, cocaine use and violence in the night time economy among English football firms
Bars, drugs and football thugs: Alcohol, cocaine use and violence in the night time economy among English football firms
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DOI：
10.1177/1748895811422949
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Treadwell, James
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作者：
Ayres, Tammy C.;Treadwell, James
本文借鉴了民族志实地考察，其目的是探讨可卡因（与酒精结合使用，并在其本身）在英国足球公司的亚文化环境中的功能。这项研究最初关注的是足球迷在比赛日使用可卡因相关的暴力行为，但与许多民族志一样，这项研究超越了最初的职权范围，包括夜间经济（NTE）中足球公司暴力的延伸。这项研究的独特之处在于为这一群体的个人提供了发言权，并使他们能够积极地解释自己的世界。它包括20个采访的足球公司的成员谁习惯性地参加了暴力交流，并发现同时使用可卡因和酒精履行三个主要功能：极端暴力的便利;收购的“超时”;和建设（超）男性身份。这些活动不仅局限于足球队的亚文化背景，而且也成为他们在新界东的主流休闲活动的一个组成部分。这项探索性研究的结果也有助于回答一个尚未得到研究的问题，即“在新界东实施暴力的人在其他情况下是否也实施暴力”（Finney，2004：5）。
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork, the aim of which was to explore the functionality of cocaine (used in conjunction with alcohol and on its own) in the subcultural milieu of the English football firm. The study was originally concerned with the use of violence associated with cocaine use among football fans on match days but, like much ethnography, the research evolved beyond its original remit to include the extension of football firm violence within the night time economy (NTE). The study is unique in giving a voice to this group of individuals and permitting them to be active interpreters of their own world. It included 20 interviews with members of football firms who habitually took part in violent exchanges and found that concurrent use of cocaine and alcohol fulfilled three main functions: the facilitation of extreme violence; the acquisition of 'time out'; and the construction of a (hyper-)masculine identity. These functions were not confined to the subcultural context of the football firm, but had also become an integral component of their mainstream leisure pursuits within the NTE. The findings from this explorative study also contribute answers to the under researched question of whether those 'who are violent in the NTE are also violent in other contexts' (Finney, 2004: 5).