... Shifting attention to Section 377’s archives, the chapter explores the subjective histories of this statute. Showing that case law and police crime reports for the antisodomy law are primarily related to child sexual assault, this chapter reveals the irrationalities of a law used quite...

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... Continuing the focus on juridical aspects of the state, this chapter turns to the antisodomy law’s significance to practices and discourses of law enforcement. Fieldwork conducted with the Delhi Police highlights the subjective, sexualized aspects of law enforcement that are analyzed...

... many are stigmatized and harassed. By recounting the experiences of deported youth, this chapter considers the ways that U.S. immigration enforcement practices reshape national landscapes. deportation law enforcement detention security deportees ...

... and the arbiter of justice. case law police crime reports Foucault child sexual assault subjectivities of law Continuing the focus on juridical aspects of the state, this chapter turns to the antisodomy law’s significance to practices and discourses of law enforcement. Fieldwork conducted...

... The deportation of U.S. citizens as aliens is amenable to several possible explanations. Racism and errors of law enforcement unconstrained by due process provide the atmospheric background for these events but are not independent causes. Chapter 12 uses deconstruction for close readings of laws...

.... Everyday law enforcement mobilized intimate forms of surveillance and spectatorship, as multiple actors looked for and looked at cross-dressing criminals in police photographs, court sketches, and newspaper crime reports. Visibility was partial, however, as newspaper reports focused on white cross-dressing...

..., characterized by “legal devolution,” or law enforcement delegated to regional authorities. Legal devolution in the Emirates has created new legal hurdles for traveling couples, as well as new forms of “law evasion.” Reprotravelers to the Emirates may become “reproductive outlaws” in order to bypass...

... Treva Ellison analyzes the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the largest federal policing bill in U.S. history, to understand how the discursive production of black nonnormativity and gender nonconformity fits into the production of blackness as existing outside juridical...

... neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple causes, and that demands for social justice were...

... the 1960s. The chapter zooms in on the German Aktenzeichen XY…ungelöst (Case XY...Unsolved, 1967–) and the Hungarian Kékfény (Blue light, 1965–). Such programs, while they were designed to underscore the efficiency and authority of state law enforcement, also crossed fiction and reality. They satisfied...

... for display and exploited the fascination that enforcement stirred up. At first glance these venues seemed to undermine the law, promoting and celebrating the public visibility of cross-dressing practices. On closer examination, however, they offered their own strategies of containment that dramatized...

... and locations. The deportation of U.S. citizens as aliens is amenable to several possible explanations. Racism and errors of law enforcement unconstrained by due process provide the atmospheric background for these events but are not independent causes. Chapter 12 uses deconstruction for close readings...

...-century cities and their continued enforcement in queer and transgender communities one hundred years later. The introduction describes the theoretical significance of studying cross-dressing laws and introduces problem bodies and trans-ing analysis as two of the book’s conceptual contributions...

... This chapter shows how by applying a more complex and accurate understanding of power, our attention is turned from winning legal recognition through civil rights reforms to understanding how the gender binary is enforced in administrative systems. The chapter focuses on three key...

...Preface The preface describes the cases of two people who came to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project for help. Both were facing a tangle of problems with social services and legal systems, creating vulnerability to homelessness and imprisonment. These two stories illustrate how purportedly neutral...

... offspring, judges enforced medieval Spanish laws on paternal responsibilities even toward those living outside their households: to wives who were suing for or had won ecclesiastical separations, to children born out of wedlock, and to adult legitimate offspring who were not self-supporting at a level...

... to which the development of vigilantism in poor neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple...

... in poor neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple causes, and that demands for social...