The Myth of the Queer Criminal

by Jeffery P Dennis

Book Overview

The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, and forensic scientists, in Europe and the United States, who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal.

Applying the tools of narratology and queer theory, Jeffery P. Dennis examines the ten types of queer criminal that have appeared in seminal texts, both literary and scientific, over the past 140 years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367370859
• ISBN13: 9780367370855
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"