Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems

Transgender People Involved in Criminal Justice System: International Perspectives, is a timely edition. The 18 chapters bring voices from the Global South to the Global North to address how transgender people come to be subject to state control. It is a thought-provoking volume highlighting the systemic and epistemic levels of violence and discrimination that transgender persons experience as they are processed by the prison industrial complex. By queering the production and systems of gender normativity that are amplified in the criminal justice system, the volume serves to advance transgender justice. This is an exciting book that educators, students, policymakers and those working in criminal justice must read.

-Professor Azrini Wahidin, Head of School for the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.

This remarkably varied and valuable volume examines the experiences of incarcerated trans people within the violent institutional enforcement of the gender binary. Contributions come from around the globe to examine the subjugation of trans people internationally and to illustrate the workings of the "transgender criminal legal nexus" in multiple locales. Taken together, the authors address the scope of the oppression of trans people, as well as the growing pursuit of trans rights through everyday resistance, innovative polices, and demands for change.

- Sarah Fenstermaker, Research Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Barbara