Criminology and queer theory [electronic resource] : dangerous bedfellows? / by Matthew Ball.
2016
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Title
Criminology and queer theory [electronic resource] : dangerous bedfellows? / by Matthew Ball.
Author
Ball, Matthew, 1983- author.
ISBN
9781137453280 (electronic book)
1137453281 (electronic book)
9781137453273
1137453273
1137453281 (electronic book)
9781137453273
1137453273
Publication Details
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Call Number
HV6025
Dewey Decimal Classification
364
Summary
This book offers critical reflections on the intersections between criminology and queer scholarship, and charts future directions for this field. Since their development over twenty-five years ago, queer scholarship and politics have been hotly contested fields, equally embraced and dismissed. Amid calls for criminology and criminal justice institutions to respond more effectively to the injustices faced by LGBTIQ people, criminologists have recently developed a Queer Criminology and turned to queer scholarship in the process. Through a sweeping analysis of critical criminologies, as well as issues as varied as shame and utopian thought, Matthew Ball points to the many opportunities for criminology to engage further with the more politically disruptive strands of queer scholarship. His analysis highlights that criminology and queer theory are 'dangerous bedfellows', and that navigating the tension between them is central to confronting the social and criminal injustices experienced by LGBTIQ communities. This book will be of particular interest for scholars of criminology, criminal justice, LGBTIQ studies, gender studies and critical theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Critical criminological perspectives.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Approaching Criminology
Chapter 2. Queer
Chapter 3. Queer/ing Criminology
Chapter 4. Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting
Part II. Within Criminology
Chapter 5. Criminology for Queers? Charting a Space for Queer Communities in Criminology
Chapter 6. Queer, Realist, and Cultural: Grounding Queer Criminology
Chapter 7. Deconstruction and Queering in Criminology
Part III. Beyond Criminology
Chapter 8. No Future? Utopia, Criminology, and the Queer Value of Hope
Chapter 9. Queer Shame and Criminology
Conclusion.
Part I. Approaching Criminology
Chapter 2. Queer
Chapter 3. Queer/ing Criminology
Chapter 4. Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting
Part II. Within Criminology
Chapter 5. Criminology for Queers? Charting a Space for Queer Communities in Criminology
Chapter 6. Queer, Realist, and Cultural: Grounding Queer Criminology
Chapter 7. Deconstruction and Queering in Criminology
Part III. Beyond Criminology
Chapter 8. No Future? Utopia, Criminology, and the Queer Value of Hope
Chapter 9. Queer Shame and Criminology
Conclusion.