The growth of ‘Queer Criminology’ in recent years has seen greater attention being paid to the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people by criminal justice agents and institutions. While this work has developed across both the global North (the UK and the USA) and South (Australia), its epistemological, conceptual, and political foundations remain firmly situated in the global North. The more recent emergence of Southern criminology, then, offers important tools with which to reflect on the extent to which Queer criminology mirrors the epistemological and political concerns of the global North, and the implications of this for those in the global South. This chapter begins the task of drawing together these two fields. It first uses critiques drawn from the global South to examine the ways that Queer criminology reflects ‘Northern’ LGBT and Queer frameworks. It then explores the implications of transposing initiatives that may provide positive outcomes for LGBTQ people in the global North, such as community policing, into the global South without fully accounting for key differences in these contexts.
History
Publication title
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
Editors
K Carrington, R Hogg, J Scott and M Sozzo
Pagination
121-138
ISBN
978-3-319-65020-3
Department/School
School of Social Sciences
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
Extent
50
Rights statement
Copyright 2018 The editors and the authors
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Gender and sexualities; Criminal justice; Law enforcement