ABSTRACT
It is not self-evident that attributions to Metropolis East are useful for understanding other cities or nightlife economies. Indeed, one of the concerns that has always existed about this study was whether it would be too narrowly descriptive, explaining nothing more than what one graduate student interpreted in their very selective and unrepresentative sampling of a multimillion-dollar industry. In addition to a brief overview of practices and patterns that Metropolis East shares with other large metropolitan cities, Chapter 6 playfully uses the title of this book to connect criminogenic capital to the capital city of the United States. I integrate what I found in Metropolis East to events that are in the public domain about Washington, D.C. With crimes of the marginally powerful – or blue-collar workers – the focus of Chapter 5, this chapter now turns to where the political and economic stakes are higher, and where criminogenic capital most explicitly reveals its entanglements and exchanges across public and private sector agents and institutions.
