Angela Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5152-7222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Queering Ethics of Care in Sexual and Family Violence Research with LGBTQA + Victim-Survivors
Purpose Research into sexual, family, and intimate partner violence experienced by sexuality and gender diverse people is ethically and methodologically fraught. Yet, identifying better research practices for engaging this community are critical if we are to understand the contexts and harms experienced by LGBTQA + people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and asexual). In this paper, we explore the research and engagement strategies de…
LGBTQ+ Workers in Religiously Affiliated Workplaces in Australia
LGBTQ+ workers employed in religiously affiliated education, social welfare, and health care workplaces experience significant discrimination in Australia. This is important as approximately one third of education and one quarter of health care and social welfare is government funded and religiously affiliated. We conducted a survey of 347 LGBTQ+ workers employed in religiously affiliated education, health care, and social welfare in Australia. M…
Bystander Intervention & LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence: Findings from two Exploratory Surveys with NSW-Based LGBTQ+ Communities
Bystander intervention has rapidly emerged as a strategy for preventing sexual violence. Yet, few studies have considered LGBTQ+ victim-survivor's experiences of bystander intervention, or LGBTQ+ community members bystander intentions and behaviours. This article presents findings from two exploratory surveys with LGBTQ+ victim-survivors of sexual violence and general community members based in NSW, Australia. Findings suggest that experiencing b…
Educators' hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia
Australian religious conservatives continue to argue that religiously affiliated schools should be able to discriminate based on the sexuality and/or gender identity of students. We argue that this discussion fails to adequately consider the serious harms that discrimination against LGBTQ+ educators has on LGBTQ+ and questioning students. The article uses data from an Australian qualitative study examining the experience of LGBTQ+ educators in re…
Transgender People and Criminal Justice: An Examination of Issues in Victimology, Policing, Sentencing, and Prisons
A Real Gap: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia
As Australian imprisonment and recidivism rates continue to rise, it is increasingly important to better understand how to support “returning citizens” to adequately prepare them for post-release life. Using a case study approach focused on service provider perspectives, this article examines the consequences of removing a transitional accommodation support service on service providers and returning citizens. Participants highlighted significant …
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, he…
Social learning lessons from Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management
As “co-produced” research becomes more popular, there is a need to evaluate the processes and outcomes of successful cases. The Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management project is a case of a ranch-scale, 10-year grazing experiment ongoing in Colorado. We used social science to evaluate group learning. We describe the complex, challenging aspects of the collaborative process, and how those challenges helped inspire learning as the team grapple…
LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces
Religiously affiliated schools employ a substantial portion of the Australian educational workforce. These religiously affiliated schools are exempt from Australian state‐based anti‐discrimination legislation in varying degrees. This can have a devastating effect on LGBT+ employees. While NSW has broad exemptions to anti‐discrimination legislation, in contrast Tasmanian anti‐discrimination legislation provides very limited exemptions. This paper …
Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist Criminology
“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States
This article examines the different ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) police liaison officers in three states of Australia conceptualized and problematized the public visibility of LGBTI police liaison services. In a climate where LGBTI police liaison services are a prominent model for building relationships between police and LGBTI people, this article considers, through interview data with LGBTI police liaison …
Police perceptions of young people: A qualitative analysis
Police views of young people inform the way they exercise discretion over this group. However, few studies have sought to formally document and examine police views of young people. The limited existing research is also mostly dated. This article begins to address this gap in the literature by presenting the results of semi-structured qualitative interviews with 41 police officers from Queensland, Australia. Stemming from a larger study of Police…
Transgender cops: The intersection of gender and sexuality expectations in police cultures
Transgender Cops by Heather Panter elaborates issues that have generally been ignored by queer criminological and policing research: the organisational experiences of transgender police officers; t
Introduction: Queer(y)ing justice
The lives of sexuality- and gender-diverse people around the world have, in recent years, changed dramatically. In some regions, political campaigns for social, criminal, and legal justice have been characterised by increasing visibility and popular support, coupled with the removal of social inequalities and discrimination. However, in other regions, repression and discrimination have remained stable or even increased, and social gains have been…
Queering policing: What is best practice with LGBTQ communities
This paper explores the notion of best practice policing with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities. Rather than wholeheartedly endorsing this notion, however, this paper is driven by the discussion of questioning moments that emerged from a number of Australian research projects focused on how police interact with LGBTQ people and from other moments of discussion about how we ought to counsel recruits to interact with LG…
Made wrong, excluded, and ignored: Introduction to a special issue on lesbians and the law
For some time now, the specific experiences that lesbians have with the law have been considerably overlooked. This is because there is a focus on how gay males have contact with the law, as gay males are the group whose same-sex intimacies are most often criminalized in legislative frameworks. It is rare for the same-sex intimacies of lesbians to be targeted explicitly in legislative frameworks. This special issue therefore focuses on how lesbia…
Queering Police Administration: How Policing Administration Complicates LGBTIQ–Police Relations
This article argues administration of police organizations may create barriers and facilitators for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) and/or questioning those seeking police support. With research to date focused on frontline LGBTIQ–police experiences, we are yet to examine the influence of administration. This article begins this conversation using data from research projects documenting policing experiences of LGBTIQ…
A Queer Criminal Career
Since the publication of Moffitt's (1993) important research on adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offending, there has been a renewal of the often tacit goal of criminology of identifying the individual factors that facilitate and inhibit deviant behaviour. In focusing on early childhood biological, genetic and psychological development, and considering social environment only as a mediating factor, these approaches miss some of the …
Queering Criminology
Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the c
Fighting Like a Girl… or a Boy? An Analysis of Videos of Violence between Young Girls Posted on Online Fight Websites
How young women engage in physical violence with other young women is an issue that raises specific concerns in both criminological literature and theories. Current theoretical explanations construct young women's violence in one of two ways: young women are not physically violent at all, and adhere to an accepted performance of hegemonic femininity; or young women reject accepted performances of hegemonic femininity in favour of a masculine gend…
Unnecessary and disproportionate: The outcomes of remand for indigenous young people according to service providers
Purpose – While research often elaborates on outcomes of youth remand more broadly, the specific impact that remand has on indigenous young people can be overlooked, particularly in Australia. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyses interview data gathered from eight individual service providers from six community youth organisations in a city in Queensland, Australia. Findings – Participants repo…
No longer raising eyebrows: The contexts and domestication of Botox as a mundane medical and cultural artefact
Cosmetic enhancement technologies have been subject to extended sociological and feminist critique, but botulinum neurotoxins (Botox) have been sidelined in this discussion. This has occurred despite Botox’s popularity and accessibility as a non-surgical cosmetic procedure. While Botox shares many similarities with cosmetic enhancement technologies such as cosmetic surgery, we argue that the fields and the socio-spatial organisation of Botox – wh…
Teaching Young Queers a Lesson: How Police Teach Lessons About Non-Heteronormativity in Public Spaces
Policing LGBTIQ people in rural spaces: Emerging issues and future concerns
This article argues identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or questioning (LGBTIQ) in rural spaces can produce specific types of policing experiences. While some literature examines the experiences of LGBTIQ people with police, very little has focused on how rurality explicitly shapes these experiences. This is significant considering research highlights how rurality can be connected to pronounced experiences of h…
We’re Not Like These Weird Feather Boa-Covered Aids-Spreading Monsters: How LGBT Young People and Service Providers Think Riskiness Informs LGBT Youth–Police Interactions
Teaching Young Queers a Lesson: How Police Teach Lessons About Non-Heteronormativity in Public Spaces
Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist Criminology
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, he…
We’re Not Like These Weird Feather Boa-Covered Aids-Spreading Monsters: How LGBT Young People and Service Providers Think Riskiness Informs LGBT Youth–Police Interactions
No longer raising eyebrows: The contexts and domestication of Botox as a mundane medical and cultural artefact
Cosmetic enhancement technologies have been subject to extended sociological and feminist critique, but botulinum neurotoxins (Botox) have been sidelined in this discussion. This has occurred despite Botox’s popularity and accessibility as a non-surgical cosmetic procedure. While Botox shares many similarities with cosmetic enhancement technologies such as cosmetic surgery, we argue that the fields and the socio-spatial organisation of Botox – wh…
LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces
Religiously affiliated schools employ a substantial portion of the Australian educational workforce. These religiously affiliated schools are exempt from Australian state‐based anti‐discrimination legislation in varying degrees. This can have a devastating effect on LGBT+ employees. While NSW has broad exemptions to anti‐discrimination legislation, in contrast Tasmanian anti‐discrimination legislation provides very limited exemptions. This paper …
Policing LGBTIQ people in rural spaces: Emerging issues and future concerns
This article argues identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or questioning (LGBTIQ) in rural spaces can produce specific types of policing experiences. While some literature examines the experiences of LGBTIQ people with police, very little has focused on how rurality explicitly shapes these experiences. This is significant considering research highlights how rurality can be connected to pronounced experiences of h…
Disorder or Delight? Towards a New Account of the Fashion Model Body
The body of the fashion model is not always an object of admiration. Extensive criticism has been directed at the sordid and sometimes grotesquely unhealthy and inappropriate bodily appearance of the fashion model body. The disorderliness of the model body is particularly conspicuous in research literature that interrogates the fashion model in terms of illness and possible treatment. Such accounts can work out of assumptions about the model body…
Educators' hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia
Australian religious conservatives continue to argue that religiously affiliated schools should be able to discriminate based on the sexuality and/or gender identity of students. We argue that this discussion fails to adequately consider the serious harms that discrimination against LGBTQ+ educators has on LGBTQ+ and questioning students. The article uses data from an Australian qualitative study examining the experience of LGBTQ+ educators in re…
A Real Gap: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia
As Australian imprisonment and recidivism rates continue to rise, it is increasingly important to better understand how to support “returning citizens” to adequately prepare them for post-release life. Using a case study approach focused on service provider perspectives, this article examines the consequences of removing a transitional accommodation support service on service providers and returning citizens. Participants highlighted significant …
Queering Police Administration: How Policing Administration Complicates LGBTIQ–Police Relations
This article argues administration of police organizations may create barriers and facilitators for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) and/or questioning those seeking police support. With research to date focused on frontline LGBTIQ–police experiences, we are yet to examine the influence of administration. This article begins this conversation using data from research projects documenting policing experiences of LGBTIQ…
Unnecessary and disproportionate: The outcomes of remand for indigenous young people according to service providers
Purpose – While research often elaborates on outcomes of youth remand more broadly, the specific impact that remand has on indigenous young people can be overlooked, particularly in Australia. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyses interview data gathered from eight individual service providers from six community youth organisations in a city in Queensland, Australia. Findings – Participants repo…
Disorder or Delight? Towards a New Account of the Fashion Model Body
The body of the fashion model is not always an object of admiration. Extensive criticism has been directed at the sordid and sometimes grotesquely unhealthy and inappropriate bodily appearance of the fashion model body. The disorderliness of the model body is particularly conspicuous in research literature that interrogates the fashion model in terms of illness and possible treatment. Such accounts can work out of assumptions about the model body…
Policing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Young People: A Gap in the Research Literature
This article argues for exploring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people's experiences with police. While research examines how factors such as indigeneity influence young peoples' experiences with police, how sexuality and/or gender identity mediates these relationships remains largely unexplored. Key bodies of research suggest a need to explore this area further, including: literature documenting links between homophobic vio…
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We’re Not Like These Weird Feather Boa-Covered Aids-Spreading Monsters: How LGBT Young People and Service Providers Think Riskiness Informs LGBT Youth–Police Interactions
Teaching Young Queers a Lesson: How Police Teach Lessons About Non-Heteronormativity in Public Spaces
Policing LGBTIQ people in rural spaces: Emerging issues and future concerns
This article argues identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or questioning (LGBTIQ) in rural spaces can produce specific types of policing experiences. While some literature examines the experiences of LGBTIQ people with police, very little has focused on how rurality explicitly shapes these experiences. This is significant considering research highlights how rurality can be connected to pronounced experiences of h…
Queering Criminology
Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the c
Fighting Like a Girl… or a Boy? An Analysis of Videos of Violence between Young Girls Posted on Online Fight Websites
How young women engage in physical violence with other young women is an issue that raises specific concerns in both criminological literature and theories. Current theoretical explanations construct young women's violence in one of two ways: young women are not physically violent at all, and adhere to an accepted performance of hegemonic femininity; or young women reject accepted performances of hegemonic femininity in favour of a masculine gend…
Unnecessary and disproportionate: The outcomes of remand for indigenous young people according to service providers
Purpose – While research often elaborates on outcomes of youth remand more broadly, the specific impact that remand has on indigenous young people can be overlooked, particularly in Australia. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyses interview data gathered from eight individual service providers from six community youth organisations in a city in Queensland, Australia. Findings – Participants repo…
No longer raising eyebrows: The contexts and domestication of Botox as a mundane medical and cultural artefact
Cosmetic enhancement technologies have been subject to extended sociological and feminist critique, but botulinum neurotoxins (Botox) have been sidelined in this discussion. This has occurred despite Botox’s popularity and accessibility as a non-surgical cosmetic procedure. While Botox shares many similarities with cosmetic enhancement technologies such as cosmetic surgery, we argue that the fields and the socio-spatial organisation of Botox – wh…
A Queer Criminal Career
Since the publication of Moffitt's (1993) important research on adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offending, there has been a renewal of the often tacit goal of criminology of identifying the individual factors that facilitate and inhibit deviant behaviour. In focusing on early childhood biological, genetic and psychological development, and considering social environment only as a mediating factor, these approaches miss some of the …
Police perceptions of young people: A qualitative analysis
Police views of young people inform the way they exercise discretion over this group. However, few studies have sought to formally document and examine police views of young people. The limited existing research is also mostly dated. This article begins to address this gap in the literature by presenting the results of semi-structured qualitative interviews with 41 police officers from Queensland, Australia. Stemming from a larger study of Police…
Transgender cops: The intersection of gender and sexuality expectations in police cultures
Transgender Cops by Heather Panter elaborates issues that have generally been ignored by queer criminological and policing research: the organisational experiences of transgender police officers; t
Introduction: Queer(y)ing justice
The lives of sexuality- and gender-diverse people around the world have, in recent years, changed dramatically. In some regions, political campaigns for social, criminal, and legal justice have been characterised by increasing visibility and popular support, coupled with the removal of social inequalities and discrimination. However, in other regions, repression and discrimination have remained stable or even increased, and social gains have been…
Queering policing: What is best practice with LGBTQ communities
This paper explores the notion of best practice policing with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities. Rather than wholeheartedly endorsing this notion, however, this paper is driven by the discussion of questioning moments that emerged from a number of Australian research projects focused on how police interact with LGBTQ people and from other moments of discussion about how we ought to counsel recruits to interact with LG…
Made wrong, excluded, and ignored: Introduction to a special issue on lesbians and the law
For some time now, the specific experiences that lesbians have with the law have been considerably overlooked. This is because there is a focus on how gay males have contact with the law, as gay males are the group whose same-sex intimacies are most often criminalized in legislative frameworks. It is rare for the same-sex intimacies of lesbians to be targeted explicitly in legislative frameworks. This special issue therefore focuses on how lesbia…
Queering Police Administration: How Policing Administration Complicates LGBTIQ–Police Relations
This article argues administration of police organizations may create barriers and facilitators for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) and/or questioning those seeking police support. With research to date focused on frontline LGBTIQ–police experiences, we are yet to examine the influence of administration. This article begins this conversation using data from research projects documenting policing experiences of LGBTIQ…
“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States
This article examines the different ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) police liaison officers in three states of Australia conceptualized and problematized the public visibility of LGBTI police liaison services. In a climate where LGBTI police liaison services are a prominent model for building relationships between police and LGBTI people, this article considers, through interview data with LGBTI police liaison …
Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist Criminology
Social learning lessons from Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management
As “co-produced” research becomes more popular, there is a need to evaluate the processes and outcomes of successful cases. The Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management project is a case of a ranch-scale, 10-year grazing experiment ongoing in Colorado. We used social science to evaluate group learning. We describe the complex, challenging aspects of the collaborative process, and how those challenges helped inspire learning as the team grapple…
LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces
Religiously affiliated schools employ a substantial portion of the Australian educational workforce. These religiously affiliated schools are exempt from Australian state‐based anti‐discrimination legislation in varying degrees. This can have a devastating effect on LGBT+ employees. While NSW has broad exemptions to anti‐discrimination legislation, in contrast Tasmanian anti‐discrimination legislation provides very limited exemptions. This paper …
Transgender People and Criminal Justice: An Examination of Issues in Victimology, Policing, Sentencing, and Prisons
A Real Gap: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia
As Australian imprisonment and recidivism rates continue to rise, it is increasingly important to better understand how to support “returning citizens” to adequately prepare them for post-release life. Using a case study approach focused on service provider perspectives, this article examines the consequences of removing a transitional accommodation support service on service providers and returning citizens. Participants highlighted significant …
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, he…
Sociology (23 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (12 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Queer (9 works) · Transgender (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works)