Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency A groundbreaking work that turns a queer eye on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences as suspects, defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes like gleeful gay killers, lethal lesbians, disease spreaders, and deceptive gender benders to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets...
Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency A groundbreaking work tha...
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women--such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall--in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the...
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutalit...