Wilson, Sue, Taskila, Taina, Ismail, Tariq, Stocken, Deborah D, Martin, Ashley, Redman, Val, ...
Abstract Background Bowel cancer is common and a major cause of death. The NHS is currently rolling out a national bowel cancer screening programme that aims to cover the entire population by 2010....
Woodiwiss, Michael, Hobbs, Richard
Moral panics are conventionally associated with the interpretations of youthful action imposed by powerful state or media forces. However, the concept is also useful in understanding more generally...
Mapping and analysing virtual outcrops (2008)
Immo Trinks, Phillip Clegg, Ken Mccaffrey, Richard Jones, Richard Hobbs, Bob Holdsworth, ...
Laser scanning is a very efficient way to generate realistic high resolution digital models of 3D geological outcrops. This paper discusses the methodologies involved in the creation and analysis of...
Hayward, Keith, Hobbs, Richard
The contemporary night-time economy has transformed British town centres into liminal spaces where transgression does not subvert normative space, but establishes public drunkenness as integral to a...
A zone of ambiguity: the political economy of cigarette bootlegging (2007)
Hornsby, Robert, Hobbs, Richard
This paper examines the development of cigarette bootlegging within the United Kingdom by way of a case study of an entrepreneurial criminal firm which sought to capitalize upon the cigarette price...
Connecting the gendered door: women, violence and doorwork (2007)
Hobbs, Richard, O'Brien, Kate, Westmarland, Louise
This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods...
Assessing organised crime by a new common European approach: final report (2007)
Balcaen, Annelies, Van Dijck, Maarten, Van Duyne, Petrus C., Eisenberg, Ulrich, Hobbs, Richard, Hornsby, Robert, ...
Deilverable 33 from the project 'Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of a common European approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU.'
Trafficking in cigarettes in the European Union (2007)
Van Dijck, Maarten, Van Duyne, Petrus C., Balcaen, Annelies, Hobbs, Richard, Hornsby, Robert, Von Lampe, Klaus, ...
Report from the project 'Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of a common European approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU.'
Anglo-American corporate governance and the employment relationship: a case to answer? (2006)
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Konzelmann, Suzanne J., Wilkinson, Frank
The corporate governance environment in the UK and US is generally thought to be hostile to the emergence of cooperative employment relations of the kind exemplified by labour–management...
Provisional situation report on drug trafficking (2005)
Hobbs, Richard, Hornsby, Robert
Report from research project 'Assessing Organised Crime: Testing Feasibility of a Common European Approach in a Case Study Cigarette Black Market in the EU'.
Violent hypocrisy: governance and the night-time economy (2005)
Hobbs, Richard, Winlow, Simon, Hadfield, Philip, Lister, Stuart
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee report on anti-social behaviour - written evidence (2005)
Session 2004-5
Violence and control on the night-time economy (2005)
Hobbs, Richard, Hadfield, Philip, Lister, Stuart, Winlow, Simon
Anglo-American corporate governance and the employment relationship: a case to answer? (2005)
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Konzelmann, Suzanne J., Wilkinson, Frank
The corporate governance environment in the UK and US is generally thought to be hostile to the emergence of cooperative employment relations of the kind exemplified by labour-management...
E is for enterprise: Middle level drug markets in ecstasy and stimulants (2004)
Hobbs, Richard, Pearson, Geoffrey
Abstract This article is derived from a study of 'middle-market' drug distribution funded by the Home Office. It involved prison interviews with middle and upper level drug dealers, and interviews...
The history of east London: a stroll down felony lane (2004)
Originally published in Hobbs, D (1988) Doing the business, Oxford, Oxford University Press. pp. 84-118.
Bouncers: violence and governance in the night time economy (2003)
Hobbs, Richard, Hadfield, Philip, Lister, Stuart, Winlow, Simon
This book is the first attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation...
Organised crime and violence (2003)
Bringing together contributors primarily from Europe and North America, this handbook approaches its topic from a primarily sociological viewpoint, although contributions from philosophy, cultural...
Implicit Contracts, Takeovers and Corporate Governance: In the Shadow of the City Code. (2003)
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Nash, David Roger, Slinger, Giles
Implicit Contracts, Takeovers and Corporate Governance: In the Shadow of the City Code. (2003)
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Nash, David Roger, Slinger, Giles
Barnard, Catherine, Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard
The EU Working Time Directive has so far had little impact on an ingrained culture of long-hours working in the UK. Case studies suggest that the use of individual opt-outs from the 48-hour limit on...
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Konzelmann, Suzanne, Wilkinson, Frank
Prevailing patterns of dispersed share ownership and rules of corporate governance for UK listed companies appear to constrain the ability of managers to make credible, long-term commitments to...
Deakin, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Konzelmann, Suzanne, Wilkinson, Frank
Prevailing patterns of dispersed share ownership and rules of corporate governance for UK listed companies appear to constrain the ability of managers to make credible, long-term commitments to...
'Door lore': the art and economics of intimidation (2002)
Hobbs, Richard, Hadfield, Philip, Lister, Stuart, Winlow, Simon
Simon Deakin, Richard Hobbs, David Nash, Giles Slinger
This paper offers a qualitative, case-study based analysis of hostile takeover bids mounted in the UK in the mid-1990s under the regime of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. It is shown that...
The '24-hour city': condition critical? (2001)
Hadfield, Philip, Lister, Stuart, Hobbs, Richard, Winlow, Simon
Accounting for bouncers: occupational licensing as a mechanism for regulation (2001)
Lister, Stuart, Hadfield, Philip, Hobbs, Richard, Winlow, Simon
Middle market drug distribution (2001)
Pearson, Geoffrey, Hobbs, Richard, Jones, Steve, Tierney, John, Ward, Jennifer
'Be nice': the training of bouncers (2001)
Lister, Stuart, Hadfield, Philip, Hobbs, Richard, Winlow, Simon
Get ready to duck: bouncers and the realities of ethnographic research on violent groups (2001)
Winlow, Simon, Hobbs, Richard, Lister, Stuart, Hadfield, Philip
Deposits of Late Roman precious metals c. AD 200-700 : changes over time and space. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1998.
Late Roman precious metal deposits, c. AD200-700 : changes over time and space. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1998.
No abstract received.
We present a model of CSR as a set of mechanisms for aligning corporate behaviour with the interests of society in reducing externalities and promoting a sustainable corporate sector. These...