Table of Contents:
  • Setting the historical stage : colonial legacies
  • Gleeful gay killers, lethal lesbians, and deceptive gender benders : queer criminal archetypes
  • The ghosts of Stonewall : policing gender, policing sex
  • Objection! treatment of queers in criminal courts
  • Caging deviance : prisons as queer spaces
  • False promises : criminal legal responses to violence against LGBT people
  • Over the rainbow : where do we go from here?