30465 - Queer Criminology in Precarious Sociolegal Climates

Description

This panel sponsored by the Crime, Law, and Deviance section explores emerging efforts in queer criminology in the current social, political, and legal landscape, particularly as it intersects with concerns about work. Renewed criminalization of LGBTQ people, whether in public, in schools, at work, or at home, has increased the reach of the carceral system and had cascading negative effects on safety and belonging. Additionally, post-secondary education has been a major target of anti-diversity and anti-LGBTQ efforts, resulting in increased precarity for sociologists championing LGBTQ rights during a time when educators are already facing increased vulnerability at a structural level. What impacts do these stressors have on conducting queer criminological work and our ability to acquire new knowledge, educate others, and transform existing policies and practices? What effects do they have on sociologists themselves - some of whom share identities with the groups they study - to actively investigate and oppose marginalization while navigating it in their lives and workplaces? And how might we support generative paths forward? CLD encourages submissions from sociologists working not only in academia, but also those in advocacy, policy, and community organizing to share their insights. Submissions may be empirical, conceptual/theoretical, or pedagogical.

Sub Unit

• Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance / Queer Criminology in Precarious Sociolegal Climates

Presider

• Vanessa R. Panfil, Old Dominion University

Individual Presentations

• Extended Carceral Experiences: Informal Confinement of LGBTQIA+ Identities Across Non-Corrective Institutions - Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, University of South Carolina-Columbia

• Enforcing the 'Unnatural Offence': Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda - SM Rodriguez, LSE

• Are Sexual Orientation Disparities in Arrest Decoupled from Criminal Behavior? - Kris Rosentel, Northwestern University

• How’d They Do It? Analyzing the Landscape of HIV Criminalization Reform in the United States - Trevor Alexander Hoppe, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Evan Hall, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

Session Organizer

• Vanessa R. Panfil, Old Dominion University