LBGTQ+ Crime and Victimization

This book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders.Most publications focus on LBGTQ+ history and the community's movement towards equality and acceptance in society and in law.A focus on how the criminal justice system victimizes and marginalizes LBGTQ+ persons is needed.Consequently, this work includes chapters on members of the LBGTQ+ community who work in the criminal justice system, forced sexual orientation efforts, transgender legal concerns, LBGTQ+ persons who are arrested and imprisoned, and online dating hate crimes.International scholars provide their individual stories about being gay, bisexual or lesbian and working as a police or correctional officer.Other international contributors explain their research on crime and how the law and criminal justice community does not provide LBGTQ+ persons with protection or support as offenders or victims.This book will of interest to researchers and advanced students of Criminology, Sociology, Law, and Gender Studies.It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Women & Criminal Justice.