Policing Sex


1.73 October 1, 2016 11:15 am - 1:00 pm

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Presenter biographies will be linked below as they become available. Final program subject to change.

Scott De Orio
Trevor Hoppe
Russell K. Robinson
Maurice Tracey

This panel considers various ways law polices queer sex, both in criminal and in other domains of law.

Trevor Hoppe: “Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies” (full abstract)

Scott DeOrio: “Child Sexual Abuse Laws and the Criminalization of Teen Sex” (full abstract)

Maurice Tracey: ““The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power”: HIV Criminalization, Blackness, and the Continued Construction of Homonormative Whiteness” (full abstract)

Russell K. Robinson: “The New Homophobia” (full abstract)