Queering Law and Order - by Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal (Paperback)

About the Book

In Queering Law and Order, Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system, through legal cases, academic research, and popular media. This book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for scholars, researchers, and ...

Book Synopsis

In Queering Law and Order, Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system, through legal cases, academic research, and popular media. This book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for scholars, researchers, and students interested in advocating for LGBTQ rights.

Review Quotes

In this vivid, powerful, and provoking text Nadal masterfully exposes how criminal justice policies, stereotypes, and fear have historically obscured rather than clarified the everyday realities of LGBTQ people--the perennial "other"--in the US. He charges that anti-gay policies, supported by certain social movements and the mentality of some, continue to strategically brutalize, marginalize, oppress, and silence non-straight people. Marshalling sound evidence and in vivid detail, Nadal argues that it is time we as a society acknowledge the brutality, intimidation, and oppression waged against LGBTQ people. Instead of pushing sexuality to the social margins, it should be situated at the center of our moral universe, prompting us to expose, accept, appreciate, and mobilize "othered" persons and correlating modes of thought, as we seek to humanize the existing (twisted) social contours of gender and sexual justice. Ultimately, this author challenges readers to understand, view, and treat sexuality for what it is--part of a person's unique self. Broadly, this book calls for a transformation in moral, philosophical, legal, cultural, social, and public thinking about sexuality and criminal justice. The text addresses areas of philosophy, legal thought, sexuality, and gender studies, offering a must read for people vested in better understanding of, e.g., sexual violence, LGBTQ people, and sexual justice. Highly recommended.

About the Author

Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal is professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).