Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.
Ambitious and timely, the book collates research to provide detailed research-based insights into the involvement of transgender people in different types of criminal justice systems and in different parts of the world. With a focus on all parts of the system, chapters explore interactions with various criminal justice services, with a principal focus on carceral systems. In doing so, a wide variety of topics are discussed, including access to medical care and vulnerability to harassment and physical violence as well as the uses and abuses of state power. These are examined using a plethora of methods, and through the different perspectives provided by the authors, including academics, activists, and practitioners.
Collating international research and enabling comparisons with and between different criminal justice systems, Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems will be of value to academics, practitioners, human rights defenders, and policy-makers working across a wide range of disciplines and criminal justice contexts, including criminology, sociology, law, social policy, zemiology, queer theory, and transgender studies.
Ambitious and timely, the book collates research to provide detailed research-based insights into the involvement of transgender people in different types of criminal justice systems and in different parts of the world. With a focus on all parts of the system, chapters explore interactions with various criminal justice services, with a principal focus on carceral systems. In doing so, a wide variety of topics are discussed, including access to medical care and vulnerability to harassment and physical violence as well as the uses and abuses of state power. These are examined using a plethora of methods, and through the different perspectives provided by the authors, including academics, activists, and practitioners.
Collating international research and enabling comparisons with and between different criminal justice systems, Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems will be of value to academics, practitioners, human rights defenders, and policy-makers working across a wide range of disciplines and criminal justice contexts, including criminology, sociology, law, social policy, zemiology, queer theory, and transgender studies.
Transgender People Involved in Criminal Justice System: International Perspectives, is a timely edition. The 18 chapters bring voices from the Global South to the Global North to address how transgender people come to be subject to state control. It is a thought-provoking volume highlighting the systemic and epistemic levels of violence and discrimination that transgender persons experience as they are processed by the prison industrial complex. By queering the production and systems of gender normativity that are amplified in the criminal justice system, the volume serves to advance transgender justice. This is an exciting book that educators, students, policymakers and those working in criminal justice must read.
-Professor Azrini Wahidin, Head of School for the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.
This remarkably varied and valuable volume examines the experiences of incarcerated trans people within the violent institutional enforcement of the gender binary. Contributions come from around the globe to examine the subjugation of trans people internationally and to illustrate the workings of the "transgender criminal legal nexus" in multiple locales. Taken together, the authors address the scope of the oppression of trans people, as well as the growing pursuit of trans rights through everyday resistance, innovative polices, and demands for change.
- Sarah Fenstermaker, Research Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Barbara
-Professor Azrini Wahidin, Head of School for the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.
This remarkably varied and valuable volume examines the experiences of incarcerated trans people within the violent institutional enforcement of the gender binary. Contributions come from around the globe to examine the subjugation of trans people internationally and to illustrate the workings of the "transgender criminal legal nexus" in multiple locales. Taken together, the authors address the scope of the oppression of trans people, as well as the growing pursuit of trans rights through everyday resistance, innovative polices, and demands for change.
- Sarah Fenstermaker, Research Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Barbara







