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Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (2023)
Book Chapter
Tascioglu, E. (2023). Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul. In G. Radics, & P. Ciocchini (Eds.), Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World (231-251). Springer

Historically, trans women of Turkey have been frequent targets of torture and ill-treatment by the police forces. Since the early 2000s, however, the strategies of the police to control trans women’s existence within the city has moved away from infl... Read More about Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul.

The Queer, the Cross and the Closet: Religious Exceptions in Equality Law as State-Sponsored Homophobia (2021)
Journal Article
Coyle. (2021). The Queer, the Cross and the Closet: Religious Exceptions in Equality Law as State-Sponsored Homophobia. Laws, 83 - 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws10040083

The struggle for queer people to be recognised as full sexual citizens continues to be thwarted by the existence of religious exceptions to equality law. These exceptions reactivate and legitimise the historical oppression of queer people, who have l... Read More about The Queer, the Cross and the Closet: Religious Exceptions in Equality Law as State-Sponsored Homophobia.

The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future? (2019)
Book Chapter
Pritchard-Jones, L. (2019). The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?. In The Care Act 2014 Wellbeing in Practice

8. The. Care. Act. 2014. and. the. Mental. Capacity. Act. 2005: learning. lessons. for. the. future? Laura Pritchard-Jones ... and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 attempted to fill 'legal vacuum[s]' (Manthorpe et al., 2013:369): the Mental Capac... Read More about The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?.

‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name? (2018)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2018). ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?. Journal of Adult Protection, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2017-0029

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore and critique the conceptual and terminological shift – particularly from ‘vulnerability’ to ‘adult at risk’ - in adult safeguarding under the Care Act 2014 and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales... Read More about ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?.

The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations. Australian Feminist Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2017.1376366

This article considers what we owe to each other by way of information disclosure prior to sexual intimacy. It does so in one specific context, namely sexual relations between cisgender and transgender people. In recent years, the UK has witnessed a... Read More about The Ethicality of the Demand for (Trans)Parency in Sexual Relations.

A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 453 - 468. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1341394

Who is the ‘queer refugee’? How do we manage their feelings, emotions and experiences when assessing or supporting their claims for asylum? In contemporary refugee decision-making and litigation, numerous challenges arise when discerning what constit... Read More about A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law.

'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)' (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'. Law and Humanities, 228-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2017.1344478

This article considers, and renders more accessible, the figure of the Monster. It will first provide a theoretical framework for understanding this historical legal category and contemporary social theory template for the outsider. In doing so, it w... Read More about 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'.

Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000004

Recent research has found that LGBTQ university students have lesser rates of satisfaction, because their experiences at university are not always inclusive (Grimwood, 2016). This has led to calls for university lecturers to actively identify and cha... Read More about Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom.

Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases. In Consent and Control: Legal Perspectives on State Power (124 -151)

Over the last three decades, an increasing number of Anglophone courts have recognised asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Such jurisprudence has been heralded for “progressing” LGBTI rights. Yet, the progressive pro... Read More about Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases.

Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law. In The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (221 - 228)

What is a (trans)gender identity? How do we measure gender identity related persecution? Does refugee law offer adequate protection to culturally diverse gender minorities? Constructions gender identity as a ‘particular social group’ in international... Read More about Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law.

‘The changing face of youth justice’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Brammer. (2016). ‘The changing face of youth justice’. In Critical Issues in Social Work Law (100 - 116 (176))

In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to defendants under 18 years of age. This group includes children (10–13) and young persons (14–17), collectively referred to as ‘juveniles’ and, in this... Read More about ‘The changing face of youth justice’.

I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey (2015)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2015). I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 1452-1470

This article examines life story narratives of trans women in an effort to understand how violence produces and shapes their lives and subjectivities in Istanbul, Turkey. After delineating the main forms of violence that target them, it looks at the... Read More about I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey.

Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases (2015)
Book Chapter
(2015). Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases. In Queering Criminology (83-101)

Emotion plays a central role in the criminalisation of non-normative sexualities, desires, and relationships. Disgust, in particular, has been mobilised as a gesture to condemn queer bodies or intimacies that refuse to subscribe to reproductive heter... Read More about Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases.