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Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing (Paperback)
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Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing (Paperback)
Series: Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Despite ongoing challenges to the criminalisation and surveillance
of queer lives, police leaders are now promoted as allies and
defenders of LGBT rights. However, in this book, Emma K. Russell
argues that the surface inclusion of select LGBT identities in the
protective aspirations of the law is deeply tenuous and
conditional, and that police recognition is both premised upon and
reproductive of an imaginary of' 'good queer citizens'-those who
are respectable, responsible, and 'just like' their heterosexual
counterparts. Based on original empirical research, Russell
presents a detailed analysis of the political complexities,
compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve
sexual rights and protections. With a historical trajectory that
spans the so-called 'decriminalisation' era to the present day, she
shows how LGBT activists have both resisted and embraced police
incursions into queer space, and how-with LGBT support-police
leaders have re-crafted histories of violence as stories of
institutional progress. Queer Histories and the Politics of
Policing advances broader understandings of the nature of police
power and the shifting terrain of sexual citizenship. It will be of
interest to students and researchers of criminology, sociology, and
law engaged in studies of policing, social justice, and gender and
sexuality.
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