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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ) people face difficulties in prison such as increased vulnerability to sexual assault, other kinds of violence, and trouble accessing necessary medical care. [1]
Oct 24, 2022 · Furthermore, lesbian and bisexual women are four times more likely to be arrested than straight women. Moreover, The Sentencing Project reports that “Women and girls drive the higher representation of LGBTQ+ people in prison, jails, and youth facilities—as do LGBTQ+ people of color.”.
Mar 14, 2021 · After World War II, criminologists began depicting the white “lesbian prison inmate” as a menacing social type and dangerous sexual category. Historian Estelle B. Freedman explores how this happened, as both academic and popular attention focused on women in prison —part of the Cold War–era assault on nonconforming sexuality.
Feb 1, 2011 · This paper explores the ways that people involved with women’s prisons constructed lesbian identity and the queer space of prisons between 1970 and 1980, at a historical moment shaped by the rise of gay and lesbian liberation, second wave feminism, and prisoner’s rights movements.
Sep 3, 2021 · The aim of this systematic review is to critically evaluate and synthesize the existing research evidence relating to the unique psychological and social experiences of LGBTQ+ people in prison and identify aspects that may help or hinder access to appropriate psychosocial interventions and supports. The PRISMA procedure was utilized.
- Gráinne Donohue, Edward McCann, Michael Brown
- 10.3390/ijerph18179335
- 2021
- 2021/09
A growing body of literature draws on first-person accounts, qualitative analyses, and statistical assessments to understand how and why LGBT people end up in prisons and other types of lock-up facilities, as well as how they experience being imprisoned and the collateral consequences of those experiences.Scholarship in this body of work ...
May 10, 2022 · Throughout the decades, queer women were arrested for things like homelessness, smoking and forgery, but also for wearing pants, sending the word “lesbian” through the mail, being “incorrigible”...
