“The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front

This article considers how licensing law conceives and practices jurisdiction. It examines the limits of attempts to define and exploit jurisdiction in the regulation of social problems connected to alcohol. Using the case study of a prohibition on the sale of spirits in the Scottish town of Motherw...

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Main Author: Beckingham, David
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47364/