Queer Criminology

Question 1

What does Queer Criminology aim to do?

Answer 1

Seeks to move LBGTQ people from margins to the centre of criminological inquiry.

Question 2

What does Queer Criminology look into?

Answer 2

Investigates and challenges the ways that the criminal justice system has been used as a tool of oppression against queer people.

Question 3

What is Woods Homosexual Theory (2015)?

Answer 3

it draws attention to the historical roots of homophobia within criminology and consists of two components:

• The Deviance centred element
• Invisibility element

Question 4

Sex describes?

Answer 4

The DNA and sex organs that we are born with

Question 5

Gender is?

Answer 5

Distinguished by our actions and should be recognised as a verb (lenning, 2009)

Question 6

Key Influences of Queer Theory on Queer Criminology?

Answer 6

• Established in the 90s
• Challenges heteronormativity
• Queer criminology is influenced by critical views (Foucault and power dynamics)

Question 7

How many countries around the world prohibit sex between members of the same sex?

Answer 7

78

- Several countries impose death penalty

Question 8

When and why did India criminalise homosexual sex?

Answer 8

1860

• Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalised homosexual sex and imposed sentences of up to life in prison.
• Section 377 = because model for anti-sodomy laws in a host of other British colonies.

Question 9

Stonewall Riots?

Answer 9

1969 = a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community who fought back against police brutality.

Question 10

what did Foucault suggest about this topic?

Answer 10

persecution of the gay community an example of the use of power as a means to oppress and repress the freedoms of others (1980).

Question 11

Cao (2003,p.1) defines police brutality as?

Answer 11

“Citizens judgement that they have not been treated with full rights and dignity by police as expected in a democratic society”

Question 12

Greenberg(2011) indicated that trans women are …..?

Answer 12

less likely to seek help from police officers in cases of domestic violence.

Question 13

Selective enforcement key facts?

Answer 13

• Victimisation of Queer people often goes unreported or is ignored.
• Trans people of colour are even less likely to report.
• Also subjects to “Gender Checks”

Question 14

Miller et al. (2003) noted that?

Answer 14

Masculine lesbians are not as marginalised as gay men.

Question 15

Colvin (2009) suggested that?

Answer 15

Homosexual officers experience a heightened sense of marginalisation and harassment compared to other minority groups on the job.

Question 16

What did Jones (2015) do?

Answer 16

Surveyed 836 police officers to assess if a move to diversify policing was successful.

Question 17

What did Itaborahy & Zhu (2014) discover?

Answer 17

Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited in only 61 countries.

Question 18

What did Buist and Lenning (2015) suggest?

Answer 18

Advancement of Queer rights in the civil arena should be of central concern to criminologists.