Stefan Vogler
Biographic Data
| ID | 312268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Vogler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogler |
| SIGNATURE | VOGLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7166-5999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Police contact and self-rated health among LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people
To examine the relationship between police contact and self-rated health of U.S. LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people. Data were derived from an original nationally representative survey of both LGBTQ (N=798) and non-LGBTQ (N=652) adults fielded as part of the Policing the Rainbow study in August 2022. Multivariate linear regression models were used to test the study’s hypotheses. Predicted self-rated general health scores were lower for all respondents wh…
Legal Legibility: Gender and Sexual Classifications in the Law
A growing body of literature examines either how state and legal institutions directly classify and categorize people along the lines of sex, gender, and sexuality or how such institutions set the parameters by which other social institutions must do so. Synthesizing this scholarship, this article conceptualizes these related social practices as constellations of biopolitical sorting, or processes that regulate both individual bodies and broader …
Who Supports the LGBTQ Movement? Exploring the Roles of Sexual Identity, Gender, LGB Visibility, and Gender Expression
LGBTQ+ perspectives on police reform: An examination of support for defunding, reallocating, and disbanding, a research note
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 catalyzed a national discussion about policing, including calls to #DefundthePolice that recently manifested in the 2024 national election as presidential candidates debated competing approaches to achieving public safety and police reform. The well‐documented “race gap” in views of the police was apparent in this discussion, whereas the views of another minoritized community with a long history of being subject…
Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are disproportionately incarcerated. Nascent scholarship has begun to explore this phenomenon, but we lack a comprehensive theoretical account to make sense of this disparate empirical work and to guide future research. This paper proposes such an account by bringing together insights from general strain theory and feminist pathways theory to create a queer pathways framework that more…
Is Men’s Heterosexuality Perceived as More Precarious Than Women’s? An Intersectional, Race-by-Gender Analysis
People perceive men’s masculinity to be more precarious, or easier to lose, than women’s femininity. In the present article, we investigated (a) whether men’s heterosexuality is likewise perceived to be more precarious than women’s, and if so, (b) whether this effect is exaggerated when the targets in question are Black rather than White. To investigate these questions, we conducted three experiments (one of which was conducted on a probability-b…
LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police: Friend or Foe
Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness on community views toward cops
Understanding the context for police avoidance: The impact of sexual identity, police legitimacy and legal cynicism on willingness to report hate crime
Developed over decades, a body of research identifies the factors that affect people’s willingness to report crime to law enforcement. In a context in which studies of anti-LGBTQ violence and peoples’ responses to such victimisation are proliferating, a timely question warrants attention: What predicts the willingness of sexual minorities (SMs) (ie, lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer) to report hate crime to the police? Utilising original data coll…
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention
Although transgender immigrants are a highly vulnerable and growing population, little sociological or criminological work has examined their experiences. This paper begins to fill that gap through in-depth life history interviews with thirteen transgender women migrants in detention and a survey of fifty-five transgender women migrants who experienced detention. Though the detention system allows trans migrants to be classified as such for housi…
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law
Advocates have long observed that sexual minority women are treated less favorably than sexual minority men under US asylum law. However, there has been little empirical examination of these claims in a US context. We offer the first systematic comparative empirical analysis of 199 asylum decisions for cisgender sexual minorities. Using quantitative metrics to contextualize in-depth qualitative analysis, we show that even when cisgender sexual mi…
Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification
Science, technology, and sexuality: New directions in the study of sexual knowledge
The sociology of sexualities and the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology share many areas of theoretical and empirical interest, yet engagements between the fields have been limited. Work that has spanned both fields has tended to focus on sexuality from a biomedical perspective, neglecting other forms of knowledge production. This paper critically reviews existing areas of convergence between the fields, including measurement and cla…
Determining Transgender: Adjudicating Gender Identity in U.S. Asylum Law
Transgender legal protections have long been contentious issues, with courts often pathologizing or refusing recognition of transgender identities. Recently, however, courts adjudicating asylum claims have recognized “transgender” as a legitimate category of protection. I take this legal development as an opportunity to ask how courts determine if individuals are transgender. While previous work has shown how courts maintain the gender binary, as…
Constituting the ‘sexually violent predator’: Law, forensic psychology, and the adjudication of risk
Considerable socio-legal scholarship demonstrates law’s constitutive power, and much criminological research has considered the effects of actuarial risk assessment. However, these strands have rarely been brought together to consider how legal risk assessment practices constitute sexual subjects. This article argues that law and forensic psychology co-constitute the category of the ‘sexually violent predator’ (SVP) as a distinct type of person t…
Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims
Using court decisions, interviews with legal actors, and ethnographic observations, this paper analyzes the development of sexual identity classifications for sexual minorities seeking asylum in the United States and argues that the adjudication of such claims works to consolidate and regulate sexual identities but also creates possibilities for recognizing marginalized queer identities. Asylum seekers must prove their sexual identities, and immi…
Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City's LGBTQ Communities
Using document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers' and city's goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space d…
Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims
Using court decisions, interviews with legal actors, and ethnographic observations, this paper analyzes the development of sexual identity classifications for sexual minorities seeking asylum in the United States and argues that the adjudication of such claims works to consolidate and regulate sexual identities but also creates possibilities for recognizing marginalized queer identities. Asylum seekers must prove their sexual identities, and immi…
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention
Although transgender immigrants are a highly vulnerable and growing population, little sociological or criminological work has examined their experiences. This paper begins to fill that gap through in-depth life history interviews with thirteen transgender women migrants in detention and a survey of fifty-five transgender women migrants who experienced detention. Though the detention system allows trans migrants to be classified as such for housi…
Determining Transgender: Adjudicating Gender Identity in U.S. Asylum Law
Transgender legal protections have long been contentious issues, with courts often pathologizing or refusing recognition of transgender identities. Recently, however, courts adjudicating asylum claims have recognized “transgender” as a legitimate category of protection. I take this legal development as an opportunity to ask how courts determine if individuals are transgender. While previous work has shown how courts maintain the gender binary, as…
Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City's LGBTQ Communities
Using document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers' and city's goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space d…
Constituting the ‘sexually violent predator’: Law, forensic psychology, and the adjudication of risk
Considerable socio-legal scholarship demonstrates law’s constitutive power, and much criminological research has considered the effects of actuarial risk assessment. However, these strands have rarely been brought together to consider how legal risk assessment practices constitute sexual subjects. This article argues that law and forensic psychology co-constitute the category of the ‘sexually violent predator’ (SVP) as a distinct type of person t…
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law
Advocates have long observed that sexual minority women are treated less favorably than sexual minority men under US asylum law. However, there has been little empirical examination of these claims in a US context. We offer the first systematic comparative empirical analysis of 199 asylum decisions for cisgender sexual minorities. Using quantitative metrics to contextualize in-depth qualitative analysis, we show that even when cisgender sexual mi…
Science, technology, and sexuality: New directions in the study of sexual knowledge
The sociology of sexualities and the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology share many areas of theoretical and empirical interest, yet engagements between the fields have been limited. Work that has spanned both fields has tended to focus on sexuality from a biomedical perspective, neglecting other forms of knowledge production. This paper critically reviews existing areas of convergence between the fields, including measurement and cla…
Who Supports the LGBTQ Movement? Exploring the Roles of Sexual Identity, Gender, LGB Visibility, and Gender Expression
Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims
Using court decisions, interviews with legal actors, and ethnographic observations, this paper analyzes the development of sexual identity classifications for sexual minorities seeking asylum in the United States and argues that the adjudication of such claims works to consolidate and regulate sexual identities but also creates possibilities for recognizing marginalized queer identities. Asylum seekers must prove their sexual identities, and immi…
Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City's LGBTQ Communities
Using document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers' and city's goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space d…
Constituting the ‘sexually violent predator’: Law, forensic psychology, and the adjudication of risk
Considerable socio-legal scholarship demonstrates law’s constitutive power, and much criminological research has considered the effects of actuarial risk assessment. However, these strands have rarely been brought together to consider how legal risk assessment practices constitute sexual subjects. This article argues that law and forensic psychology co-constitute the category of the ‘sexually violent predator’ (SVP) as a distinct type of person t…
Science, technology, and sexuality: New directions in the study of sexual knowledge
The sociology of sexualities and the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology share many areas of theoretical and empirical interest, yet engagements between the fields have been limited. Work that has spanned both fields has tended to focus on sexuality from a biomedical perspective, neglecting other forms of knowledge production. This paper critically reviews existing areas of convergence between the fields, including measurement and cla…
Determining Transgender: Adjudicating Gender Identity in U.S. Asylum Law
Transgender legal protections have long been contentious issues, with courts often pathologizing or refusing recognition of transgender identities. Recently, however, courts adjudicating asylum claims have recognized “transgender” as a legitimate category of protection. I take this legal development as an opportunity to ask how courts determine if individuals are transgender. While previous work has shown how courts maintain the gender binary, as…
Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law
Advocates have long observed that sexual minority women are treated less favorably than sexual minority men under US asylum law. However, there has been little empirical examination of these claims in a US context. We offer the first systematic comparative empirical analysis of 199 asylum decisions for cisgender sexual minorities. Using quantitative metrics to contextualize in-depth qualitative analysis, we show that even when cisgender sexual mi…
LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police: Friend or Foe
Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness on community views toward cops
Understanding the context for police avoidance: The impact of sexual identity, police legitimacy and legal cynicism on willingness to report hate crime
Developed over decades, a body of research identifies the factors that affect people’s willingness to report crime to law enforcement. In a context in which studies of anti-LGBTQ violence and peoples’ responses to such victimisation are proliferating, a timely question warrants attention: What predicts the willingness of sexual minorities (SMs) (ie, lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer) to report hate crime to the police? Utilising original data coll…
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention
Although transgender immigrants are a highly vulnerable and growing population, little sociological or criminological work has examined their experiences. This paper begins to fill that gap through in-depth life history interviews with thirteen transgender women migrants in detention and a survey of fifty-five transgender women migrants who experienced detention. Though the detention system allows trans migrants to be classified as such for housi…
Is Men’s Heterosexuality Perceived as More Precarious Than Women’s? An Intersectional, Race-by-Gender Analysis
People perceive men’s masculinity to be more precarious, or easier to lose, than women’s femininity. In the present article, we investigated (a) whether men’s heterosexuality is likewise perceived to be more precarious than women’s, and if so, (b) whether this effect is exaggerated when the targets in question are Black rather than White. To investigate these questions, we conducted three experiments (one of which was conducted on a probability-b…
Who Supports the LGBTQ Movement? Exploring the Roles of Sexual Identity, Gender, LGB Visibility, and Gender Expression
LGBTQ+ perspectives on police reform: An examination of support for defunding, reallocating, and disbanding, a research note
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 catalyzed a national discussion about policing, including calls to #DefundthePolice that recently manifested in the 2024 national election as presidential candidates debated competing approaches to achieving public safety and police reform. The well‐documented “race gap” in views of the police was apparent in this discussion, whereas the views of another minoritized community with a long history of being subject…
Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are disproportionately incarcerated. Nascent scholarship has begun to explore this phenomenon, but we lack a comprehensive theoretical account to make sense of this disparate empirical work and to guide future research. This paper proposes such an account by bringing together insights from general strain theory and feminist pathways theory to create a queer pathways framework that more…
Police contact and self-rated health among LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people
To examine the relationship between police contact and self-rated health of U.S. LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people. Data were derived from an original nationally representative survey of both LGBTQ (N=798) and non-LGBTQ (N=652) adults fielded as part of the Policing the Rainbow study in August 2022. Multivariate linear regression models were used to test the study’s hypotheses. Predicted self-rated general health scores were lower for all respondents wh…
Legal Legibility: Gender and Sexual Classifications in the Law
A growing body of literature examines either how state and legal institutions directly classify and categorize people along the lines of sex, gender, and sexuality or how such institutions set the parameters by which other social institutions must do so. Synthesizing this scholarship, this article conceptualizes these related social practices as constellations of biopolitical sorting, or processes that regulate both individual bodies and broader …
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Criminology (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Law (7 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 works)