03179nam 2200601 450 991055424440332120230329190236.00-226-77693-X10.7208/9780226776934(CKB)4940000000599334(MiAaPQ)EBC6551061(Au-PeEL)EBL6551061(OCoLC)1247655503(StDuBDS)EDZ0002658977(DE-B1597)588984(DE-B1597)9780226776934(EXLCZ)99494000000059933420211122d2021 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSorting sexualities expertise and the politics of legal classification /Stefan Vogler[electronic resource]Chicago :The University of Chicago Press,2021.1 online resource (285 pages) illustrationsChicago scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.0-226-76916-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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'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.Chicago scholarship online.Sex and lawUnited StatesSex offendersUnited StatesSexual minoritiesClassificationSocial aspectsUnited StatesGay political refugeesUnited StatesEvidence, ExpertUnited StatesJustice, Administration ofUnited StatesSex and lawSex offendersSexual minoritiesClassificationSocial aspectsGay political refugeesEvidence, ExpertJustice, Administration of345.73/025336Vogler Stefan1219714StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910554244403321Sorting sexualities2820160UNINA