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This book comes at a crucial time, in which gender identity has become a divisive political tool, contributing to a social climate in which transgender people have become legitimate targets for suspicion, discrimination and hate. Exploring contemporary debates surrounding transphobic hate crime, the book focuses on understanding transphobic hate crime, examining criminal justice and policy responses, analysing spaces and places where transphobia manifests, and delving into discourse, representation, and construction of transgender identities. Showcasing a diversity of research from across the criminological disciplinary landscape and through research that deploys an innovative array of methodological approaches, this book seeks to contribute to the growing canon of academic research into experiences of transphobic hate crime and provides important insights at a time of unprecedented political, social and direct threats to trans people's lives.
Presenting research that is both important and innovative,
Contemporary Issues in Transphobic Hate and Prejudice will be of great interest to students and scholars working within the disciplines of Criminology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Law, Media Studies and Queer Studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Naming Violence, Resisting Erasure - Transphobia and the Politics of Hate
Section One: Understanding Identities and Transphobia 2. Transgressing social 'norms': Understanding transphobia and hostility against gender-diverse communities 3. Anti-trans activism: an overview 4. An intersectional lens on the experiences of young transgender and non-binary people in the UK
Section Two: Global Patterns in Policy and Practice 5. Prison abolition and the case of CeCe McDonald 6. Addressing jury stigma towards transgender victims of hate crimes 7. Transphobic hate crime in illiberal democracies: A case study of Poland 8. Fatal transgender hate crimes in America: Accounts from a newly established transgender homicides database 9. A cross-sectional study on transphobia, compassion and crime perception in Germany
Section Three: Space, Place & Transphobia 10. Occupational hazards: The silent violence experienced by trans women at work 11. "A storm is coming": Deconstructing Doxxing 12. Microaggressions, prejudice and harm: Perceptions and experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals on Grindr
Section Four: Discourse, Representation and Construction 13. Isla Bryson and the burden of representation: inflammatory media coverage of trans women in the U.K. in 2023 14. "Bloody pronouns": Transphobic online hate since the proposed amendments to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2018 15. Concluding thoughts: intersecting identity, risk and harm for trans communities
About the author
Ben Colliver is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK.
Jane Healy is a Principal Academic in Criminology at Bournemouth University, UK.
Katie McBride is a Criminologist and Associate Head of School at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Gina Gwenffrewi is a tutor in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
