Criminology and Queer Theory: Dangerous Bedfellows?

by Matthew Ball

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137453273
• ISBN13: 9781137453273
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"