New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective

<p>While recent decades have seen an expansion of state crime literature, the scholarship has been slow to integrate new criminological perspectives. The field is aware of state-perpetrated harms committed against queer and gender non-conforming individuals, yet there are limited works that explicitly frame the state as a criminal actor. This paper argues for the integration of queer criminology into the field of state crime to elevate harms against the LGBTQ+ community into academic awareness. Case studies demonstrating direct state violence in Russia’s Chechen Republic and indirect state violence against trans women in the United States are included to highlight the state’s role in perpetrating harm. Sexuality and gender identity will be introduced as tools to provide a holistic understanding of the harms that impact the LGBTQ+ community. In addition, the concepts of biopower and necropolitics are used as an analytical framework to demonstrate the ways in which states and their actors decide which populations of people are worthy of life.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Justice Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2022

Author dc:creator

• Bates, Haley Elizabeth

• Gender Identity
• LGBTQ
• Necropolitics
• Queer Criminology
• Sexuality
• State Crime
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2022 Haley Elizabeth Bates

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/685

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1683