Transgender People and Criminal Justice

Heather Panter is Senior Lecturer/ Programme Leader at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and a retired American police detective with 13+ years of law enforcement experience with local and federal police agencies. Her previous academic research involved the comparative cross-examination of policing within the United States and the United Kingdom in respect to officers’ cognitive and social perceptions of LGBT+ identities.Angela Dwyer is Associate Professor in Policing and Emergency Management in the School of Social Science at the University of Tasmania and the Deputy Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. She is the founding Co-Chair of the Division of Queer Criminology with the American Society of Criminology and conducts research around the frontline policing experiences of LGBTIQ people.

• Chapter 1: Framework for Viewing Transgender Victimological Experiences in Global Criminal Processing Systems.- Chapter 2: Understanding Cultural Policing and Segregation of LGBTQ+ Communities in Poland.- Chapter 3: Exclusion and ignorance: international legal recognition and criminalisation responses to transgender communities in the context of political economy.- Chapter 4: TTransgender and gender non-conforming young people and the school-to-prison pipeline: Too crucial to ignore.- Chapter 5: Policing Transgender People.- Chapter 6: US Transgender Homicides (2013-2020): Exploring Homicide Characteristics and Police Disclosure During Criminal Investigations.- Chapter 7: Disorder in the Court: Transgender Folx Experiences of Criminal Legal Practitioner Failings.- Chapter 8: “Never let anyone say that a good fight for the fight for good wasn’t a good fight indeed”: The enactment of agency through military metaphor by one Australian incarcerated transgender woman.- Chapter 9: Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions.