CJBA 356 Queering Crime and Justice
3 hours
This course provides a broad consideration of queer criminology, a subdiscipline of criminology that pushes past binary notions of identity, behavior, knowledge, and institutions. In addition to exploring the lived experiences of LQBTQIA+ or “queer” people within and external to the criminal justice system, queer criminology embraces new and critical forms of scholarship that analyze how knowledge is produced and legitimated. As such, this course will engage with work from leading contemporary and historical scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives like criminology, sociology, queer theory, Black feminism, and critical race theory. Furthermore, the course will discuss topics such as our field’s roots in the over-policing of queer communities and identities. In doing so, this course offers a guided opportunity to “queer” crime and justice.