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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554244403321

Autore

Vogler Stefan

Titolo

Sorting sexualities : expertise and the politics of legal classification / / Stefan Vogler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2021

ISBN

0-226-77693-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Chicago scholarship online

Disciplina

345.73/025336

Soggetti

Sex and law - United States

Sex offenders - United States

Sexual minorities - Classification - Social aspects - United States

Gay political refugees - United States

Evidence, Expert - United States

Justice, Administration of - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

'Sorting Sexualities' analyzes how legal and scientific institutions work together to reify and regulate sexual subjects in highly gendered and racialized ways. Using legal and discursive analysis, interviews with legal and scientific actors, and multi-sited ethnographic observations, it demonstrates that attempts to classify sexual 'others' naturalize social differences along the lines of sexuality and simultaneously legitimate differential forms of social control and legal regulation.