Queer Criminology and Queer Penal Abolitionism

Abstract

This article aims to present a genealogy of the emergence of queer criminology and queer penal abolitionism. Seeking to understand how the establishment of these fields became possible, we situate the ways in which sexuality constituted the history of criminological thought. Alongside and beyond queer criminological critique, we reflect on queer penal abolitionism as a set of practices and theories of sexual and gender dissidents critical to the path of reinforcing the penal system. At last, we state how Brazilian productions can be read as part of queer criminology and/or abolitionism.