Sorting Sexualities

Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification

Stefan Vogler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-77676-7 (ISBN)

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In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement—two situations where state actors must determine individuals’ sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed—one a punitive assessment, the other a protective one—they present the same question: how do we know someone’s sexuality?

In this rich ethnographic study, Vogler reveals how different legal arenas take dramatically different approaches to classifying sexuality and use those classifications to legitimate different forms of social control. By delving into the histories behind these diverging classification practices and analyzing their contemporary reverberations, Vogler shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize.

Stefan Vogler is a research scientist with NORC at the University of Chicago and an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Foundation. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Gender & Society, Theoretical Criminology, Sociology Compass, Law & Society Review, and the Journal of Homosexuality.

Introduction

1: Kissing Cousins: Queerness, Crime, and the Politics of Knowing
2: Seeing Sexuality Like a State
3: Forensic Psychology, Complicit Expertise, and the Legitimation of Law
4: Insurgent Expertise and the Hybrid Network of LGBTQ Asylum
5: Asylum Seekers and Signs of Queerness
6: Sex Offenders and the Detection of Deviance
7: Queer Subjects and the Construction of Risky Countries
8: Sexual Predators and the Constitution of Dangerous Individuals
Conclusion: Sexuality, Science, and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Static-99R Coding Form
Appendix 2: Methodology
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-226-77676-X / 022677676X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-77676-7 / 9780226776767
Zustand	Neuware