by Valerie Jenness | Sep 5, 2016 | Publications
Explaining Criminalization: From Demography and Status Politics to Globalization and Modernization By Valerie Jenness Explaining Criminalization explained from Demography and Status Politics to Globalization and Modernization provides a review and critical...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: Violence aimed at individuals who identify, or are perceived as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or otherwise gender variant has been a part of the fabric of most societies both historically and in the present era. This essay reviews...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: In the past few decades, there has been a move in research along two parallel lines: on transgender people and on intersectionality. In Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category, David Valentine (2007: 4) argues that the term “transgender” emerged...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: When Susan Brownmiller published Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, few anticipated that it would become a feminist classic published in more than a dozen languages. Even fewer imagined that it would foreshadow a proliferation of public...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: Recognizing that prisons house diverse populations in equally diverse types of environments, we utilize a unique data set and employ two well-known sociological concepts—collective identity and collective efficacy—to examine overlapping communities in which...
