Overview
- Highlights existing research on LGBTQ Communities interactions with the Criminal Justice System, and provides directions for future research
- Interdisciplinary coverage including qualitative and quantitative research
- Explores practical issues with policy-implications, such as policing, juvenile justice, and correctional facilities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction and Overview of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice
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LGBT Communities, Crime, and Victimization
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LGBT Communities and Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems
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LGBT Communities, Law, and Justice
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Reviews
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“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)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice
Editors: Dana Peterson, Vanessa R. Panfil
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9188-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9187-3Published: 06 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1787-7Published: 29 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9188-0Published: 04 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 587
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies