Queer (in)justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Boston : Beacon Press, [2011]
Format: Book
Description: xx, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
Draws on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy to present an examination of the gay experience, illustrating the continuing punishment of gay expression in the United States and illuminating strategies for change.
Series: Queer action/queer ideas.
Contents:
Setting the historical stage : colonial legacies -- Gleeful gay killers, lethal lesbians, and deceptive gender benders : queer criminal archetypes -- The ghosts of Stonewall : policing gender, policing sex -- Objection! Treatment of queers in criminal courts -- Caging deviance : prisons as queer spaces -- False promises : criminal legal responses to violence against LGBT people -- Over the rainbow : where do we go from here?
Subjects:
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
Gays -- Violence against -- United States.
Hate crimes -- United States.
Homophobia -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
Gays -- Violence against -- United States.
Hate crimes -- United States.
Homophobia -- Law and legislation -- United States.
ISBN:
9780807051160
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI LGBTQ+ Mog | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
SOCIAL SCI LGBTQ+ Mog | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.