期刊名称：International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
印刷版ISSN：2202-7998
电子版ISSN：2202-8005
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：4
页码：212-214
DOI：10.5204/ijcjsd.1596
语种：English
出版社：Queensland Uuniversity of Technology
摘要：Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing is the first in a new series in Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice from Routledge that aims, among other things, "to reinforce the importance of queer and intersectional critiques to criminology more broadly" (Russell 2020, p. ii). Emma K. Russell’s book, which analyzes several significant events in the history of police-LGBTQ community relations, is one large step toward achieving that goal. In her book, Russell (2020) aims to:1)interrogate changing conceptions of sexual and gender identities, violence, and the state and how these conceptions altered the relationship between policing and LGBTQ rights; 2) illustrate the ability of policing to absorb and “deflect critique, re/form, and maintain power;” and 3) ’’highlight the need to move beyond simplistic narratives of progress or diagnoses of co-option and deepen our understanding of the complex interplay between policing and sexual citizenship”（pp. 8-9〕. I believe that Russell has achieved those aims and made a strong and positive contribution to critical queer scholarship. Queer criminologists will find themselves nodding along when they find critiques of hate crime law, the consumerism of pride, and liberal rights frameworks woven throughout the book. Mainstream or administrative criminologists will also find familiar points of discussion, such as the impact of video footage on poncing, the notion of ideal victimhood, and the concerns of police legitimacy.
