Teaching Resources

Example syllabi and course descriptions are below.

Recommended Texts:

Example Syllabi:

• LGBTQ People, Crime, and Justice (Vanessa Panfil, Old Dominion University)
• Sex, Sexuality, and the Law (Emily Lenning, Fayetteville State University)

Example Class Activities/Exercises:

• Example 1

Recommended Films and Documentaries:

• Dorosh-Walther, B. (2014). Out in the night. Available to rent through YouTube, Google Play, Amazon, or VUDU.
• Baus, J., Hunt, D., & Williams, R. (2006). Cruel and unusual. 

Legal Cases:

• Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga., 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020).
• Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986).
• Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000).
• Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
• Lawrence v. Texas, 538 U.S. 559 (2003). 
• Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 138 S. Ct. 1719 (2018).
• Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015).
• One, Inc. v. Olesen, 355 U.S. 371 (1958).
• Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996).
• United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013).

Other Readings/Journal Articles:

• Activism
  • Bassichis, M., Lee, A., & Spade, D. (2011). Building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we’ve got. In E. A. Stanley & N. Smith (Eds.), Captive genders: Trans embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (pp. 15-40). Oakland, CA: AK Press. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
• AIDS/HIV
  • Cameron, E., Burris, S., & Clayton, M. (2008). HIV is a virus, not a crime: Ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 11. DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-11-7.
  • Fletcher, J. B., Kisler, K. A., & Reback, C. J. (2014). Housing status and HIV risk behaviors among transgender women in Los Angeles. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(8), 1651-1661.
  • Strub, S. (2012). Prosecuting HIV: Take the test and risk arrest?
• Criminological Theory
  • Button, D. M., & Worthen, M. G. (2014). General strain theory for LGBQ and SSB youth: The importance of intersectionality in the future of feminist criminology. Feminist criminology, 9(4), 270-297.
  • Button, D. M., & Worthen, M. G. (2017). Applying a general strain theory framework to understand school weapon carrying among LGBQ and heterosexual youth. Criminology, 55(4), 806-832. For article page click here
• General
  • Arune, W. (2006). Transgender images in the media. In L. Castañeda and S.B. Campbell (Eds.), News and sexuality: Media portraits of diversity (pp. 111-133). Chicago: Sage. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Barker-Plummer, B. (2013.) Fixing Gwen: News and the mediation of (trans) gender challenges. Feminist Media Studies. 13(4):710-724. For article page click here
  • Billard, J.T. (2016). Writing in the Margins: Mainstream News Media Representations of Transgenderism. International Journal of Communication (10): 4193-4218. For article page click here
  • Capuzza, J.C. (2014). Who defines gender diversity? Sourcing routines and representation in mainstream US news stories about transgenderism. International Journal of Transgenderism, 15(3-4):115-128.
  • Dietz, E., & Halem, J. (2016). How Should Physicians Refer When Referral Options are Limited for Transgender Patients?. AMA Journal of Ethics, 18(11), 1070-1080.
  • Dorr, L.L. (1999). Arm in Arm: Gender, Eugenics, and Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of the 1920s. Journal of Women’s History, 11 (1): 143-166. For article page click here.
  • Fradella, H. F., Owen, S. S., & Burke, T. W. (2009). Integrating gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues into the undergraduate criminal justice curriculum. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 20(2), 127–156
  • GLAAD. (2016). Introduction and Glossary of Terms (pp. 4-14). Media Reference Guide, 10th Edition. New York, NY: Author. 
  • Gross, L. (1991). Out of the mainstream: Sexual minorities and the mass media. Journal of homosexuality, 21(1-2):19-46. For article page click here.
  • Herdt, G. (2009). Introduction: Moral Panics, Sexual Rights, and Cultural Anger. From Herdt, G. Moral Panics, Sexual Rights, and Cultural Anger. New York: New York University Press. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Kattari, S. K., Whitfield, D. L., Walls, N. E., Langenderfer-Magruder, L., & Ramos, D. (2016). Policing gender through housing and employment discrimination: comparison of discrimination experiences of transgender and cisgender LGBQ individuals. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 7(3), 427-447.
  • Lester, P. M. (2015). From abomination to indifference: A visual analysis of transgender stereotypes in the media. In Capuzza, J.C. & Spencer, L.G. (Eds), Transgender communication studies: Histories, trends, and trajectories (143-154). New York, NY: Lexington Books. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • MacKenzie, G., & Marcel, M. (2009). Media coverage of the murder of US transwomen of color. In Cuklanz, L.M. & Moorti, S. (Eds) Local Violence, Global media: Feminist analyses of gendered representations (79-106). New York, NY: Peter Lang. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Marwick, A., Gray, M. L., & Ananny, M. (2014). “Dolphins Are Just Gay Sharks” Glee and the Queer Case of Transmedia As Text and Object. Television & New Media, 15(7), 627-647.
  • Movement Advancement Project (MAP). (2019). Non-discrimination laws map of U.S.
  • Panfil, V. R., & Miller, J. (2014). Beyond the straight and narrow: The import of Queer Criminology for Criminology and Criminal Justice. The Criminologist, 39 (4), 1-8.
  • Schwartz, P. & Rutter, R. (1998). The Gender of Sexuality. From Schwartz, P. &Rutter, V. The Gender of Sexuality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Center for New Media & History, George Mason University. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Sloop, J. M. (2000). Disciplining the transgendered: Brandon Teena, public representation, and normativity. Western Journal of Communication (includes Communication Reports), 64(2), 165-189.
  • Strommen. (2021). How to use gender-neutral pronouns in Spanish.
• Hate/Bias Crimes
  • Bufkin, J.L. (1999). Bias Crime as Gendered Behavior. Social Justice, 26, (1): 155-176.
  • Herek, G. M. (2009). Hate crimes and stigma-related experiences among sexual minority adults in the United States: Prevalence estimates from a national probability sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(1), 54-74.
  • Miranda, D, A. (2013). Extermination of the Joyas gendercide in Spanish California. In Stryker and Aizura (Eds) The Transgender Studies Reader Vol 2. (p. 350- 363). New York, NY: Routledge. Available for purchase, click here.
  • National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP). (2013). Hate Violence: Against Transgender communities.
  • Lydon, J., for Black & Pink. (2012). A compilation of critiques on hate crime legislation (pp. 13-17). In R. Conrad (Ed.), Against equality: Prisons will not protect you. Lewiston, ME: Against Equality Publishing Collective. Available for purchase, click here.
• Justice System
  • Amnesty International. (2005). United States of America: Stonewalled: Police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the U.S. Amnesty International 2005.
  • Black & Pink. (2015). Coming out of Concrete Closets: A Report on Black & Pink’s National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey.
  • Capers, I. B. (2008) “Cross Dressing and the Criminal,” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: Vol. 20: Iss. 1, Article 1
  •    Caraveo-Parra, D., Fradella, H. F., Salerno, J., & Telep, C. W. (2019). Does homophobia affect prosecutorial discretion in ambiguous statutory rape cases? Willamette Social Justice and Equity Journal, 3(1), 1–50.
  • Center for American Progress & Movement Advancement Project (CAP & MAP). (2016). Unjust: How the Broken Criminal legal System Fails Transgender People.
  • Dario, L. M., Fradella, H. F., Verhagen, M., & Parry, M. M. (2019). Assessing LGBT People’s perceptions of police legitimacy. Journal of Homosexuality, , 1-31. doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1560127
  • Dwyer, A. (2014). Perversity, pleasures, and partnerships: The historical emergence of LGBT-police relationships. In D. Peterson & V. R. Panfil (Eds.), Handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice (pp. 149-164). New York, NY: Springer.  Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Fradella, H. F. (2002). Legal, moral, and social reasons for decriminalizing sodomy. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 18(3), 279–301.
  • Fradella, H. F. Chamberlain, E., Carroll, M. R., & Melendez, R. A. (2002). Sexual orientation, justice, and higher education: Student attitudes towards gay civil rights and hate crimes. Journal of Law and Sexuality, 11, 11–51.
  • Fradella, H. F. (2003). Lawrence v. Texas: Genuine or illusory progress for gay rights in America? Criminal Law Bulletin, 39(5), 597–607.
  • Fradella, H. F. (2007). Integrating the study of sexuality into substantive criminal law courses. Journal of Legal Education, 57(1), 60–76.
  • Girshick, L. (2011). Out of compliance: Masculine-identified people in women’s prisons. In E. A. Stanley & N. Smith (Eds.), Captive genders: Trans embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (pp. 189-208). Oakland, CA: AK Press. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Grant, J. M., Mottet, L. A., Tanis, J., Harrison, J., Herman, J. L., & Keisling, M. (2011). “Police and incarceration.” In Injustice at every turn: A report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 158-172. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
  • Jenness, V., Sexton, L., & Sumner, J. (2009). Transgender inmates in California’s prisons: An empirical study of a vulnerable population. In The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Wardens’ Meeting. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine, Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, Department of Criminology, Law and Society.
  • Justice, U.S.D. (2018) Transgender Offender Manual, Change notice. Retrieved from U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Lambda Legal. (2015). Protected and Served?: A national survey exploring discrimination by police, courts, prisons and schools against LGBT people and people living with HIV in the United States.
  • Miller, S.L., Forest, K.B., & Jurik, N.C. (2003). Diversity in Blue: Lesbian and Gay Police Officers in a Masculine Occupation. Men and Masculinities, 5 (4): 355-385.
  • National Center for Transgender Equality. (2018). LGBTQ People Behind Bars, A Guide to Understanding the Issues Facing Transgender Prisoners and Their Legal Rights.
  • Pasko, L. (2010). Setting the record “straight”: Girls, sexuality, and the juvenile correctional system. Social Justice, 37, 7-26.
  • Sevelius, J., & Jenness, V. (2017). Challenges and opportunities for gender-affirming healthcare for transgender women in prison. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 13(1), 32-40. doi:10.1108/IJPH-08-2016-0046.
  • Woods, J. B., Galvan, F. H., Bazargan, M., Herman, J. L., & Chen, Y. (2013). Latina transgender women’s interactions with law enforcement in Los Angeles County. Policing, 7, 379-391.
• Offending
  • Dennis, J. P. (2014). The LGBT offender. In D. Peterson & V. R. Panfil (Eds.), Handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice (pp. 87-101). New York, NY: Springer.  Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Farr, K. A. (2000). Defeminizing and dehumanizing female murderers: Depictions of lesbians on death row. Women and Criminal Justice, 11(1), 49-66.
  • Johnson, D. (2008). Taking over the school: Student gangs as a strategy for dealing with homophobic bullying in an urban public school district. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 19 (3/4), 87-104.  For article page click here
  • Logan, L. (2011). The case of the “killer lesbians.” The Public Intellectual. 
  • Molloy, T. (2012). The rise of the new gay villains.
• Queer Theory and related frameworks
  • Ball, M. (2014). What’s queer about queer criminology? In Peterson, D. & Panfil, V.R. (Eds) Handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice (531-555). New York, NY: Springer. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Crenshaw, K. (1990). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review. 43(6) 1241-1299
  • de Beauvoir, Simone. (2011). The Second Sex.  New York, NY: Vintage Books. Available for purchase, for a preview click here
  • Foucault, M. (1990). The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York, NY: New York Press. (PDF available here)
  • Galupo, M. P., Mitchell, R. C., Grynkiewicz, A. L., & Davis, K. S. (2014). Sexual minority reflections on the Kinsey Scale and the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid: Conceptualization and measurement. Journal of Bisexuality, 14(3-4), 404-432.
  • John Barker, M. & Scheele, J. (2016). Queer: A Graphic History. London, UK. Icon Books. Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
  • Woods, J.B. (2011) “Queering Criminology”; Overview of the State of the Field. In Peterson, D. & Panfil, V.R. (Eds) Handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice (15-43). New York, NY: Springer. Available for purchase, for a preview click here
• Queer Youth
  • Burdge, H., Licona, A. C., & Hyemingway, Z. T. (2014). LGBTQ youth of color: Discipline disparities, school push-out, and the school-to-prison pipeline. San Francisco, CA: Gay-Straight Alliance Network and Tucson, AZ: Crossroads Collaborative at the University of Arizona.
  • Kosciw, J. G., Greytak, E. A., Giga, N. M., Villenas, C., & Danischewski, D. J. (2016). Executive summary (pp. xv-xxv). The 2015 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth in our nation’s schools. New York, NY: GLSEN.
  • Kosciw, J. G., Greytak, E. A., Zongrone, A.D, Clark, C. M., & Truong, N.L., (2016).  The 2017 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth in our nation’s schools. New York, NY: GLSEN.
  • Majd, K., Marksamer, J., & Reyes, C. (2009). Hidden injustice: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile courts. San Francisco, CA: Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile Defender Center, and National Center for Lesbian Rights.
• Sex, Sex Education and Reproductive Rights
  • Center for American Progress (CAP). (2013). “LGBT-inclusive sex education means healthier youth and safer schools.”
  • Cohen, S.A. (2008). Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture. Guttmacher Policy Review, 11, (3): 2-5, 12.
  • Egan, T. 2000. Wall Street Meets Pornography. New York Times.
  • Human Rights Watch. (2008). This alien legacy: The origins of “sodomy” laws in British colonialism. New York, NY: Author. [Excerpts: pp. 52-65, “Part V” and “Recommendations”]
  • McElroy, Wendy. (2006). A Feminist Overview of Pornography, Ending in a Defense Thereof.
  • Raymond, J. (2003). Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution and a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution. Journal of Trauma Practice, 2: 315-332.
  • Robertson, Stephen. (2008). Age of Consent Laws: Introduction. 
  • Rosen, J. (2004). Pornography and the Internet. The New Atlantis.
  • U.S. Department of State. (2004). The Link Between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking. Bureau of Public Affairs.
  • Weitzer, R. (2005a). New Directions in Research on Prostitution. Crime, Law & Social Change, 43: 211-235.
  • Weitzer, R. (2005b). The Growing Moral Panic Over Prostitution and Sex Trafficking. The Criminologist, 30, (5): 1, 3-5.
  • Zilney, L. &Zilney. L. (2009). Perverts & Predators: The Making of Sexual Offending Laws. Lanham, MD: Rowman& Littlefield.  Available for purchase, for a preview click here.
• Victimization
  • Beck, A. J. (2014). Sexual victimization in prisons and jails reported by inmates 2011–12: Supplemental tables: Prevalence of sexual victimization among transgender adult inmates. Washington: U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Fahmy, C., & Fradella, H. F. (2014). Same-sex intimate partner violence. Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley–Blackwell.
  • Fradella, H. F., & Galeste, M. A. (2011). Sexting: The misguided penal social control of teenage sexual behavior in the digital age. Criminal Law Bulletin, 47(3), 438–473
  • Murphy, B. C. (2001). Chapter 2: Anti-Gay/Lesbian Violence in the Unites States. In Christie, D.J., Wagner, R.V. & Winter, D.A. (Eds.) Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21^st Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
  • Jenness, V., Sexton, L., & Sumner, J. (2019). Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context. Criminology, 57(4), 603-631. doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12221.
  • Panfil, V. R. (2014). Gay gang- and crime-involved men’s experiences with homophobic bullying and harassment in schools. Journal of Crime and Justice, 37, 79-103. For article page click here.
  • Stop Prisoner Rape. (2006). In the Shadows: Sexual Violence in U.S. Detention Facilities.