Queering Criminology

by Dwyer, Angela; Ball, Matthew; Crofts, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781137513335
• ISBN10: 1137513330
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the criminal justice system. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions that develop the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of 'queer' and 'criminology'.
 
Reflecting the diversity of research that is undertaken at this intersection, the contributions to this volume offer a deeper theoretical and conceptual development of this field alongside empirical research that illustrates the continued relevance and urgency of such scholarship. The contributions consider what it means to be queering criminology in the current political, social, and criminological climate, and chart directions along which this field might develop in order to ensure that greater social and criminal justice for LGBTIQ communities is achieved.

Author Biography

Angela Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
 
Matthew Ball is Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Thomas Crofts is Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

1. Queering Criminologies; Angela Dwyer, Matthew Ball and Thomas Crofts
PART I: QUEER CRIMINOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
2. Reflections on the Emergence, Efficacy and Value of Queer Criminology; Derek Dalton
3. The Past is the Past? The Impossibility of Erasure of Historical LGBTIQ Policing; Angela Dwyer and Stephen Tomsen
4. The 'Prison of Love' and Its Queer Discontents: On the Value of Paranoid and Reparative Readings in Queer Criminological Scholarship; Matthew Ball
PART II: UNCOMFORTABLE SUBJECTS IN QUEER CRIMINOLOGY
5. Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases; Senthorun Raj
6. Who is the Subject of Queer Criminology? Unravelling the Category of the Paedophile; Dave McDonald
7. International Legal Norms on the Right to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Australian Reforms Contextualised; Wendy O'Brien
PART III: QUEER EXPERIENCES OF CRIME AND JUSTICE
8. Rainbow Crossings and Conspicuous Restraint: LGBTIQ Community Protest, Assembly and Police and Prosecutorial Discretion; Thomas Crofts and Tyrone Kirchengast
9. No Place Like Home: Intrafamilial Hate Crime Against Gay Men and Lesbians; Nicole L. Asquith and Christopher A. Fox
10. Queering Safety: LGBTIQ Young Adults' Production of Safety and Identity on a Night Out; Bianca Fileborn
11. Sexual Coercion in Men's Prisons; Paul Simpson, Joanne Reekie, Tony Butler, Juliet Richters, Lorraine Yap and Basil Donovan
12. Intimate Partner Violence within the Queensland Transgender Community: Barriers to Accessing Services and Seeking Help; Natasha Papazian and Matthew Ball