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Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting

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This chapter explores three interrelated problems to be considered in any attempts to develop queer criminology—the problems of evangelism, faith, and forgetting. It engages with Pat Carlen’s warning against evangelism in academic criminology, and encourages queer criminologists to take this warning seriously in order to ensure that they offer an original contribution to criminology. It also considers the interrelated problems of faith and forgetting that queer criminologists may encounter, such as faith in the criminal justice system or in ‘queer’ as an identity category, and a forgetting of the injuries produced by the criminal justice system and the slipperiness of ‘queer’. It concludes by suggesting that a cautiously reparative reading, in line with the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, can help respond to these problems.

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    This is a different kind of discursive reversal to that discussed in Chapter 2, where the criminological gaze shifts from viewing the homosexual as deviant towards seeing the homophobe as deviant (Groombridge 1999, 540, 541; Narrain 2008, 49; Tomsen 2009, 137–138).

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    Parts of this section have been previously published (see Ball 2016).

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Ball, M. (2016). Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting. In: Criminology and Queer Theory. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45328-0_4

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