There is a growing political discourse in Scotland acknowledging alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often characterised by violent and disorderly behaviour concentrated in and around pubs and nightclubs (‘hotspots’) on weekend nights presenting considerable public health, criminal justice and urban management issues. Recently the political rhetoric has been backed up by new legislation in an attempt to counterbalance what was previously a market-driven economy. There now exists various crime reduction partnerships and situational crime prevention technologies to restrict and control certain behaviours and the presence and movements of persons and groups. This research project has specifically focussed on the role of police in this rapidly changing regulatory NTE context. Combining data gathered from participant observation sessions with front-line police and in-depth interviews with multiple NTE stakeholders in a multi-site comparison study across Scotland, this research project provides a robust evidential base from which to analyse and interpret policing of the NTE at the national and local scales using various conceptual frameworks of contemporary policing in western societies. What my findings have shown is that front-line officers have adapted their police work in order to suit the specific context within which they are operating. I have termed this specific variation on traditional understandings of ‘cop culture’ as being the ‘street craft of policing the NTE’. Furthermore, while this street craft was evident across all three case study areas, the extremely tangled and convoluted nature of local security provision at the local scale necessitates that front-line officers adapt this street craft to meet the local specificities of their respective NTEs.

La réparation des dommages environnementaux en droit international concerne le droit international public et le droit international privé. Considérant qu’une réparation efficiente des dommages environnementaux est difficilement réalisable par le seul biais du droit international public, la méthode du droit international privé contribue à une meilleure réparation des dommages. La limite du droit international public est liée à la difficulté d’harmoniser les règles matérielles environnementales dans les cadres nationaux, régionaux et internationaux. Une autre raison est le faible contrôle du déplacement des entreprises ainsi que la difficulté de les rendre responsables pour les dommages environnementaux commis. Le droit international de l’environnement nécessite un ensemble d’outils juridiques, publics et privés, ayant comme objectif la protection de l’environnement. Les outils publics comme les traités et les mécanismes de surveillance institutionnalisés doivent opérer en complémentarité avec les outils privés comme la responsabilité civile et l’arbitrage privé. L’utilisation du droit international privé permet d’organiser un ensemble de normes appartenant à différents espaces juridiques. Cette méthode permet l’utilisation, dans un Etat, de mesures juridiques prévues dans le système juridique d’un autre État sans qu’une uniformité ne soit exigée. Le droit international privé, par le biais d’une fonction environnementale accordée aux règles de conflit de lois et de juridictions, conduit à une meilleure interaction entre les espaces normatifs et entre les différentes branches du droit, ce qui favorise une coopération plus efficace pour la protection de l’environnement. / The reparation of environmental damages in international law concerns public and private international law. Due to the fact that efficient reparation of environmental damages is hardly achieved only by public international law, private international law methods can be used to fill the gaps of the former law field. Public international law limits are related to the difficulty of harmonising substantial environmental rules on national, regional and international context. Another reason is that it is hard to control company’s international movements and to hold them liable for damages committed. International environmental law depends on some public and private legal instruments in order to protect the environment. Public instruments such as treaties and Secretariats' mechanisms of control must work jointly with private instruments such as liability and arbitration. Private international law application is useful to organise rules from different legal orders. This methode enables the use of legal measures of one State in another State without looking for uniformity. Private international law, by the environmental function of conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions rules, paves the way towards a better interaction between different normative orders and between different law fields. It leads to a more effective cooperation for environmental protection.