1st Edition

Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing

By Emma K. Russell Copyright 2020
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more


Acknowledgements



List of acronyms



List of interviews



1 Introduction: queer histories and the politics of policing



2 Policing the colony: the uneven histories of queer criminalisation



3 Over-policing and the production of good queer victims: the Tasty nightclub raid



4 ‘We don’t just want a piece of the pie; we want a whole new pie’: gay pride, pink dollars, and queer anti-capitalism



5 A new ‘feeling force’: the police commissioner goes to Pride March



6 Arresting ‘hate’: queer penalities and the take-up of a crime paradigm



7 The fabrication of queer history: narrating the police apology



8 Afterword: police power, queer resistance



Index

Biography

Emma K. Russell is Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches in the fields of queer criminology and critical carceral studies. She is the co-author of Resisting Carceral Violence: Women’s Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (2018).