Category Archives: Peer Review

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people’s interactions with police are frequently shaped by transpho- bia and the enforcement of gender norms. These dynamics stem from longstanding patterns of biased policing, which con- tinue to frame TGNC people as suspicious or criminal. For example, research such as Serpe and Nadal’s 2017 article, “Perceptions of Police: ExperiencesContinue reading “The Effect of Police and Public Entanglements on Arrests of Transgender People”

This chapter explores the evolution of a research project initially in a police department to bars as a response to accessibility concerns and activist aims. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, police were, in many ways an omnipresent yet hard-to-reach population, making them challenging to study—a global pandemic and uprisings against police violence only further limited accessibility.Continue reading “Surviving Challenges of Accessing Data and Harnessing Emotion as a Tool for Worldmaking”

Understanding the Context of Police Avoidance: The Impact of Sexual Identity, Police Legitimacy, and Legal Cynicism on Willingness to Report Hate Crime Developed over decades, a body of research identifies the factors that affect people’s willingness to report crime to law enforcement. In a context in which studies of anti-LGBTQ violence and peoples’ responses toContinue reading “Understanding the Context of Police Avoidance”