Queer, Realist, and Cultural: Grounding Queer Criminology

Abstract

This chapter considers the intersections between queer, left realist, and cultural criminologies. It explores the influences of left realist and cultural criminologies on queer criminology, the prospects that they offer to the development of queer criminology, and the potential limitations that they pose to queering criminology. In particular, the chapter discusses the ways in which the realist critique of deconstruction, and the applicability of cultural criminological notions such as ‘edgework’ and subculture, may limit the ways that queer scholarship might be utilised in queer criminology.