Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Overview of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction: Reducing the Invisibility of Sexual and Gender Identities in Criminology and Criminal Justice

      • Dana Peterson, Vanessa R. Panfil

      Pages 3-13

   3. “Queering Criminology”: Overview of the State of the Field

      • Jordan Blair Woods

      Pages 15-41

3. LGBT Communities, Crime, and Victimization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Bias Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Global Prevalence, Impacts, and Causes

      • Rebecca L. Stotzer

      Pages 45-64

   3. Marking 35 Years of Research on Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons and New Directions

      • Adam M. Messinger

      Pages 65-85

   4. The LGBT Offender

      • Jeffery P. Dennis

      Pages 87-101

   5. When They Tell You Who You Are: Lesbian Resistance to the Policing of Multiple Identities

      • Dominique E. Johnson

      Pages 103-119

   6. “I Will Fight You Like I’m Straight”: Gay Gang- and Crime-Involved Men’s Participation in Violence

      • Vanessa R. Panfil

      Pages 121-145

4. LGBT Communities and Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Pleasures, Perversities, and Partnerships: The Historical Emergence of LGBT-Police Relationships

      • Angela Dwyer

      Pages 149-164

   3. Intersections of Gender and Sexuality in Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka

      • Andrea J. Nichols

      Pages 165-182

   4. Policing the Lesbian and Gay Community: The Perceptions of Lesbian and Gay Police Officers

      • Roddrick Colvin

      Pages 183-205

   5. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Incarcerated in Delinquent Facilities

      • Joanne Belknap, Kristi Holsinger, Jani S. Little

      Pages 207-228

   6. Gender Integration in Sex-Segregated U.S. Prisons: The Paradox of Transgender Correctional Policy

      • Jennifer Sumner, Valerie Jenness

      Pages 229-259

   7. LGBT Issues and Criminal Justice Education

      • Kevin Cannon, P. Ann Dirks-Linhorst, P. Denise Cobb, Florence Maatita, Dawn Beichner, Robbin Ogle

      Pages 261-279

5. LGBT Communities, Law, and Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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   2. Rethinking the “World Polity” Perspective on Global Sodomy Law Reform

      • Neil Cobb

      Pages 283-310

   3. LGBT Movements in Southeast Europe: Violence, Justice, and International Intersections

      • Susan C. Pearce, Alex Cooper

      Pages 311-338

Contemporary scholars have begun to explore non-normative sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in a growing victimization literature, but very little research is focused on LGBTQ communities’ patterns of offending (beyond sex work) and their experiences with police, the courts, and correctional institutions. This Handbook, the first of its kind in Criminology and Criminal Justice, will break new ground by presenting a thorough treatment of all of these under-explored issues in one interdisciplinary volume that features current empirical work.

• Criminal Justice Administration
• Criminology and Gender
• Hate Crimes
• LGBT Studies
• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
• Youth Gangs

From the book reviews:

“The present work is apparently the first full-scale compilation in the realm of LGBT criminology and criminal justice. It contains 25 chapters by (principally US) criminologists who address a range of issues. … students of crime and criminal justice who recognize the need to attend to LGBT dimensions of crime and criminal justice in their work will find this quite comprehensive volume an invaluable resource. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (D. O. Friedrichs, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)

• School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany, USA

  Dana Peterson

• School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

  Vanessa R. Panfil

Dana Peterson received her PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is currently Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany (New York).  She teaches and conducts research primarily on youth gangs and gang prevention, youth violence and juvenile treatment, and the ways in which sex and gender structure each of these.  She co-edited (with Frank van Gemert and Inger-Lise Lien) the third Eurogang Network book Street Gangs, Migration, and Ethnicity (2008, Willan Publishing); has co-authored numerous articles and book chapters (including a forthcoming chapter on sex, gender, and gangs, co-authored with Vanessa R. Panfil, in The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime, edited by Rosemary Gartner and William McCarthy); and recently co-authored a book with long-time friends and colleagues Finn-Aage Esbensen, Terrance J. Taylor, and Adrienne Freng titled Youth Violence: Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership (2010, Temple University Press).  And for the past four years, she has had the pleasure and honor of serving on the University at Albany Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexed (LGBTQI) Issues, Co-Chairing the committee for the past three years.

 

Vanessa R. Panfil received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany and is currently a post-doctoral associate in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ). Her research explores how gender and sexuality shape individuals’ experiences with gangs, crime, victimization, and the criminal and juvenile justice systems. For her dissertation, she designed and conducted a partially ethnographic, in-depth interview study of self-identified gay gang members, in order to analyze the complex relationships between the commission of crime and/or gang membership and the construction of gay andmasculine identities. Her published and forthcoming works from that line of inquiry explicitly challenge existing cultural and criminological assumptions regarding gay men. Other forthcoming papers focus on the gendered experiences of both female and male gang members, as well as the promise of qualitative methods for studying queer populations and contributing to criminological theory. She also highly values and has experience with program evaluation. Finally, for over ten years, she has volunteered for LGBTQ advocacy organizations, including those that provide services to at-risk youth and those that seek to improve the quality of life for students, staff, and faculty in higher education.

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