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“The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front (2017)
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Beckingham, D. (2017). “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front. Geoforum, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.015

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 t... Read More about “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front.