Criminology and Queer Theory Dangerous Bedfellows?

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Critical Criminological Perspectives
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Critical criminology.
Criminology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Approaching Criminology
  • Chapter 2. Queer
  • Chapter 3. Queer/ing Criminology
  • Chapter 4. Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting
  • Part II. Within Criminology
  • Chapter 5. Criminology for Queers? Charting a Space for Queer Communities in Criminology
  • Chapter 6. Queer, Realist, and Cultural: Grounding Queer Criminology
  • Chapter 7. Deconstruction and Queering in Criminology
  • Part III. Beyond Criminology
  • Chapter 8. No Future? Utopia, Criminology, and the Queer Value of Hope
  • Chapter 9. Queer Shame and Criminology
  • Conclusion.

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