NCJ Number
95855
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 7 Issue: 3 Dated: (Fall 1984) Pages: 131-135
Date Published
1984
Length
5 pages
Annotation
The concept of the 'night society' as a refuge from social constraint, population congestion, harassment, and surveillance is used to explore the combination of unconventional life styles, systematic deviance, and commerical exploitation found in Amsterdam's Warmoesstraat District.
Abstract
The introduction of serious hard drug-related crimes has undermined the traditional accommodation between the police and the relatively stable deviant community of the past and has forced the criminal justice system to seek a new compromise between repression and tolerance. (Publisher abstract)