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Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing
This book presents an analysis of the complexities, compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve sexual rights and protections. With an historical trajectory that spans the so-called "decriminalisation" era to the present day, it shows how activists have both resisted and embraced police incursions into queer space.
| Author(s) | By Emma K. Russell (Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Australia). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 174 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 3 Sept 2019 |
| Availability | Available |
This book presents an analysis of the complexities, compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve sexual rights and protections. With an historical trajectory that spans the so-called "decriminalisation" era to the present day, it shows how activists have both resisted and embraced police incursions into queer space.
Acknowledgements List of acronyms List of interviews 1 Introduction: queer histories and the politics of policing 2 Policing the colony: the uneven histories of queer criminalisation 3 Over-policing and the production of good queer victims:
Emma K. Russell is Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches in the fields of queer criminology and critical carceral studies. She is the co-author of Resisting Carceral Violence: Women's Imprisonment a
