Criminology and Queer Theory

Matthew Ball is Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research explores the intersections of queer scholarship and criminology. Matthew is a co-editor of Queering Criminology (2015) and the author of a number of other publications in Queer Criminology.

• Introduction.- Part I. Approaching Criminology.- Chapter 2. Queer.- Chapter 3. Queer/ing Criminology.- Chapter 4. Evangelism, Faith, and Forgetting.- Part II. Within Criminology.- Chapter 5. Criminology for Queers? Charting a Space for Queer Communities in Criminology.- Chapter 6. Queer, Realist, and Cultural: Grounding Queer Criminology.- Chapter 7. Deconstruction and Queering in Criminology.- Part III. Beyond Criminology.- Chapter 8. No Future? Utopia, Criminology, and the Queer Value of Hope.- Chapter 9. Queer Shame and Criminology.- Conclusion.