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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.

You Can’t Have Your Cake: A Queer-Informed View of Religious Conscientious Exemptions from Equality Law (2022)
Journal Article
Coyle. (2022). You Can’t Have Your Cake: A Queer-Informed View of Religious Conscientious Exemptions from Equality Law

This paper offers a Queer-informed challenge to Adenitire’s claim that the principle of liberal neutrality can sometimes justify religious conscientious objection to equality law. It begins with a Queer critique of the assumptions behind the rights p... Read More about You Can’t Have Your Cake: A Queer-Informed View of Religious Conscientious Exemptions from Equality Law.

Prosecuting Communication Offences: Interpreting the Harms Model (2022)
Journal Article
Higson-Bliss, L. (2022). Prosecuting Communication Offences: Interpreting the Harms Model. Criminal Law Review, 271-289. https://doi.org/10.3316/agispt.20220322064068

This article explores the Law Commission’s 2021 paper - Modernising Communications Offences: a final report. The Commission recommends replacing the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003 with a new offen... Read More about Prosecuting Communication Offences: Interpreting the Harms Model.

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.

Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom. In The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (233-271)

In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might “play” with(in) the state to pursue LGBTIQ rights. We do this by exploring four case studies of reform in the United Kingdom: self-determinati... Read More about Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom.

Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the ma... Read More about Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (2020)
Journal Article
Adams, F. (2020). Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Social and Legal Studies, 30(2), 096466392097178 - 096466392097178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920971781

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Levine and Meiners, 2020) is a powerful, reflexive and much needed abolition feminist critique of carceral responses to sexual and gender violence and how feminism sho... Read More about Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence.

Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences (2020)
Journal Article
Richardson, V., & Brammer, A. (2020). Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 42(3), 360 - 376. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2020.1796223

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Ac... Read More about Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences.

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?.

Outlaw girls escape from prison: Gender, resistance and playfulness (2019)
Journal Article
Emmerich, F. (in press). Outlaw girls escape from prison: Gender, resistance and playfulness. Punishment and Society, 22(2), 207-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474519873656

Prison resistance practices are increasingly understood as gendered and linked to subjectivation. This article builds on this growing body of knowledge, but with a different and largely under explored focus, namely the confrontational resistance prac... Read More about Outlaw girls escape from prison: Gender, resistance and playfulness.

Asset-based approaches, older people and social care: an analysis and critique (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Asset-based approaches, older people and social care: an analysis and critique. Ageing and society, 1087-1099. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x17000071

Asset-based thinking is increasingly prevalent in health policy and is to be found also in discourses on social care. This article explores and critiques the applicability of asset-based approaches to social care for older people, using Carol Bacchi’... Read More about Asset-based approaches, older people and social care: an analysis and critique.

Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud. Journal of Criminal Law, 417-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018317728828

This article is a response to a series of recent successful sexual offence prosecutions brought against transgender and other gender non-conforming people for gender identity fraud, and specifically to Leveson LJ’s judgment in the Court of Appeal dec... Read More about Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud.

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.

The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security? (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security?. Merkourios, 87 - 103. https://doi.org/10.5334/ujiel.cq

The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement has been among the most controversial instruments in the fight against terrorism that the EU negotiated with the US after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The agreement has been heavily criticised for its im... Read More about The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security?.