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

Woods, Jordan Blair

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-9188-0_2

Cited by 53 publications

(40 citation statements)

References 90 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…As Woods (, p. 15) recently observed, “there is very little data on LGBTQ people's experiences of crime, both in terms of victimization and offending,” and consequently, “there is a need for theoretical and empirical advancements to bring the experience of LGTBQ people out of the shadows and into the field of criminology” (Woods, , p. 29).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that shape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents of sexual victimization exhibit a range of types of sexual victimization experienced by transgender women in prison and reveal the centrality of relationships to their experiences of victimization. Findings from logistic regression models buttress the qualitative results, highlighting a factor that consistently and powerfully indicates vulnerability to sexual victimization is involvement in consensual sexual relationships with male prisoners. Together, the data demonstrate the prominence of intimate partner violence in prison, complicate the distinction between consent and unwanted sexual experiences in the lives of transgender women in prisons for men, and shine a light on the workings of gender in a total institution that privileges heteronormativity at the expense of the safety of transgender women in prisons for men. We discuss the implications of our findings in light of timely policy concerns.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Other LGBQ youth may have decided that a weapon is necessary to retaliate against those who are victimizing them as a way to alleviate stresses, anxieties, and other negative emotions associated with school victimization. Most notable, though, is that this finding and subsequent theoretical speculation redirects historical conversations in the field of criminology that once regarded higher rates of negative outcomes as evidence of “homosexuality” as deviance (Woods, ). In the current study, we directly challenge these notions by suggesting that identity‐related victimization (rather than identity itself) leads to deviant outcomes and criminal coping.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This approach allows for an examination of the processes that LGBQ youth may use to cope with negative life experiences through school weapon carrying, rather than narrowly focusing on their victimization and weapon carrying as problematic, isolated incidences. It also helps challenge previous conceptions of LGBQ youth as deviant others (Woods, 2014) by theoretically accounting for and explaining higher rates of negative outcomes.…”

mentioning

confidence: 96%

Applying a General Strain Theory Framework to Understand School Weapon Carrying Among LGBQ and Heterosexual Youth

Button

Worthen

2017

Criminology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) youth are at a higher risk for school victimization, social isolation, and school weapon carrying compared with their heterosexual peers, yet few studies have been conducted to investigate their experiences. By using a general strain theory (GST) framework, data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) statewide probability sample of Delaware heterosexual (n = 7,688) and LGBQ (n = 484) youth in grades 9–12 show that there are both similarities and differences in the factors associated with school weapon carrying among LGBQ and heterosexual youth. LGBQ and heterosexual youth's weapon carrying is related to school victimization, but social support does not moderate the relationship between school victimization and school weapon carrying as suggested by GST. Furthermore, being male is significantly related to heterosexual youth's weapon carrying, but sex is not related to weapon carrying among LGBQ youth. Overall, the results highlight a need to reconceptualize GST to help center the experiences of LGBQ youth, a historically marginalized group, within mainstream criminological literature. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

show abstract

“…Nevertheless, there remains a dearth of criminological engagement with LGBTQ populations, and sexual orientation and gender identity issues more broadly (Peterson & Panfil, 2014;Woods, 2014). Most contemporary treatment of LGBTQ populations and crime has taken the form of research on bias crimes (Meyer, 2010;Herek, 1989Herek, , 2009Stotzer, 2008Stotzer, , 2009Moran & Sharpe, 2001Carragher, 2002;Herek et al, 1997Herek et al, , 1999Herek et al, , 2002D'Augelli & Grossman, 2001;Herek & Berrill, 1992;Berrill, 1990;Berrill & Herek, 1990), intimate partner violence (Greenwood et al, 2002;McClennen et al, 2002;Cruz, 2003;McClennen, 2005;Hester & Donovan, 2009;Murray & Mobley, 2009;Messinger, 2010;Ard & Makadon, 2011;Oriel, 2012), and anti-LGBTQ bullying 2 (Darwich, Shelley, & Terry, 2012;Hong & Garbarino, 2012;Russell et al, 2011;Berlan et al, 2010;Birkett, Espelage, & Koenig, 2009).…”

mentioning

confidence: 94%

“…3 Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people in Western countries were commonly labeled as criminals, psychopaths, sinners, and perverts (Sarbin, 1996). Through a concept that I label the homosexual deviancy thesis, I argue that the field of criminology has historically facilitated, reinforced, or left these deviant misconceptions of LGBTQ people intact (Woods, 2014). Broadly, the homosexual deviancy thesis argues that intersecting formal and informal legal, societal, and political mechanisms of social control 4 in the status quo (criminal anti-sodomy laws, for example), which explicitly defined homosexuality and gender nonconformity as forms of sexual deviance, have shaped the overwhelming treatment of LGBTQ populations in mainstream theories of crime and delinquency since the discipline's birth.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Birth of Modern Criminology and Gendered Constructions of Homosexual Criminal Identity

Woods

2014

Journal of Homosexuality

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

There is a dearth of engagement with LGBTQ populations, and sexual orientation and gender identity more broadly, in the field of criminology. This article analyzes the treatment of sexual orientation and gender identity at the birth of the discipline around the 1870 s. Through an analysis of Cesare Lombroso's writings, the article argues that a multifaceted stigma of deviance attached to homosexuality and gender nonconformity in early criminological theory. The article explains this multifaceted stigma in terms of broader political, social, cultural, and legal developments before and during the late nineteenth century that shaped modern Western conceptions of sexual orientation and gender identity.

show abstract

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

Cited by 53 publications

References 90 publications

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

Applying a General Strain Theory Framework to Understand School Weapon Carrying Among LGBQ and Heterosexual Youth

The Birth of Modern Criminology and Gendered Constructions of Homosexual Criminal Identity

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About