Criminalising Desire: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
Textbook Reading
Tim Newburn, Criminology, chapter thirty-three
And
Case, Johnson, Manlow et al, Criminology, Chapter eleven (Only those not following Newburn), chapter fifteen and chapter sixteen
Essential Reading
C Ashford, Buggery, Bribery and a committee: The Story of How Gay Sex Was Decriminalised in Britain (The conversation, 2017) https://theconversation.com/buggery-bribery-and-a-committee-the- story-of-how-gay-sex-was-decriminalised-in-britain-79597 Also available as a podcast at the same link.
L Adler, ‘Life at the Corner of Poverty and Sexual Abjection: Lewdness, Indecency, and LGBTQ Youth’ in Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine, Research Handbook on Gender Sexuality and Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 2020 76-91
C. Smart ‘The women of legal discourse’ Social and Legal Studies, 1992, 1: 29-44
Recommended Additional Reading
Tim Newburn, Key Readings in Criminology, Chapter Thirty-One and Chapter Thirty-Two
Alex Sharpe, ‘Queering Judgement: The case of Gender Identity Fraud’ (2017) 81(5) the Journal of Criminal Law 417.
Section B – Gender
1. Do women and men commit crimes for different reasons?
2. Why is there a rise in female offending?
3. Are women treated differently by the criminal justice system?
4. Should women be treated differently by the criminal justice system?
5. Should criminologists be interested in male victimisation?
Sexuality:
1- What is the relationship between LGBTIQ identities and acts and the law?
o How has this developed over time?
o Why has the law treated women who have sex with women differently to the way it
has treated men who have sex with men?
