LBGTQ+ Crime and Victimization

This book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders. Most publications focus on LBGTQ+ history and the community's movement towards equality and acceptance in society and in law.

Autorentext

Frances P. Bernat (JD, PhD) is a Texas A&M System Regents Professor, and Emerita at Arizona State University. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship which involves the interplay between law and criminal justice: immigration, criminal law and procedure, cybercrime, human sex trafficking, and youth deviance and resilience.

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Introduction: The LBGTQ+ Community and Criminal Justice 1. Confronting Oppression: Reframing Need and Advancing Responsivity for LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults 2. Hate Hurts: Exploring the Impact of Online Hate on LGBTQ+ Young People 3. Gay Dating Platforms, Crimes, and Harms in India: New Directions for Research and Theory 4. "Missing and Missed": Failures of the Bruce McArthur Investigation and the Ongoing Victimization of Toronto's Rainbow Streets 5. Workplace Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Police Officers in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary 6. Surviving the Landings: An Autoethnographic Account of Being a Gay Female Prison Officer (in an Adult Male Prison in England) 7. From Victimization to Incarceration: Transgender Women in Costa Rica 8. Litigation on Gender Confirmation Surgery and Hormonal Therapy among Trans Women Prisoners: Views from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals 9. No Such Thing as Acceptable Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: An International Human Rights Analysis 10. 11. Comparing the Gay and Trans Panic Defenses