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22 Critical Criminology 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm22 and id is 1 raw text is: Crit Crim (2014) 22:1-4 DOI 10.1007/s10612-013-9231-2 Introduction to the Special Issue on Queer/ing Criminology: New Directions and Frameworks Matthew Ball - Carrie L. Buist - Jordan Blair Woods Published online: 24 December 2013 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Over twenty years ago, sexuality studies and queer theory arrived on the academic and political scenes of the global North and asserted themselves as forces to be reckoned with. It has been almost as long since criminologists made initial calls for criminology to confront these new challenges. Yet, to date, the response to these calls within criminology has been limited at best. While a body of research that considers the criminal justice experiences of queer communities is slowly growing, the field still lacks a sense of itself and what it might be. The recent publication of Dana Petersen and Vanessa R. Panfil's monumental Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice (2014) is a sign that things are slowly changing. Nevertheless, there has yet to be a sustained conversation about the theoretical development of queer criminology. This special issue seeks to address this oversight by exploring how critical criminolo- gies might be able to assist in increasing criminological engagement with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities, and the panoply of concepts utilized when exploring sexual orientation and gender identity. Critical criminologies hold out a lot of hope for those seeking to address the social and criminal injustices experienced by marginalized communities, including LGBTQ communities. Thus, critical criminology seems to be a natural starting point for queer/ing criminology, even if, as some of the authors here would suggest, existing conceptual frameworks within this broad umbrella might need to be updated, or new ones developed. M. Ball School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, Australia e-mail: mj.ball@qut.edu.au M. Ball Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities, Durham University, Durham, UK C. L. Buist Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA J. B. Woods (E) UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard Ave., Box 951476, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Springer

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