Valerie Jenness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Jenness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenness |
| SIGNATURE | JENNESS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police
Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness on community views toward cops
Forty Years after Brownmiller
The Feminization of Transgender Women in Prisons for Men
In this article, we investigate the degree to which prison shapes transgender women’s perceptions of themselves as gendered people in prisons for men. Drawing on original data collected from 315 transgender women in 27 prisons for men in California, a mixed-methods analysis reveals that transgender women in prisons for men report higher levels of self-perceptions of femininity while incarcerated, especially for those who report sexual victimizati…
Hate Crimes
Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have "hate crimes" only recently become recog-nized as a serious social problem, especially in the United States? This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifested
Gay Bashing
Often subsumed under the broader rubric of “hate crime,” gay bashing generally denotes the perpetration of violence against people identified as, or assumed to be, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgendered (LGBT). Although examples of this type of behavior range from acts of symbolic and rhetorical violence to ongoing bullying‐type behaviors, physical assaults, and homicide, selection of the victim based on perceived non‐normative sexuality an…
Appealing to Justice
Appealing to Justice is an unprecedented study of disputing in prison and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. The authors gained unique access to California prisoners and correctional officers, as well as to thousands of prisoners’ grievances. Quoting extensively from these data, they give voice to those who are rarely heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms in the literature—for example, about the…
The Emergence, Content, and Institutionalization of Hate Crime Law
This review provides an overview of the emergence, content, and institutionalization of hate crime law as a unique form of criminal and civil rights law originating in the United States and increasingly finding a home in other countries. From the introduction and politicization of the term hate crime in the late 1970s to the increased enforcement of hate crime law at the beginning of the twenty-first century, social movements have constructed the…
Inside Organized Racism
Making Hate a Crime
The Hate Crime Canon and Beyond
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States
To comprehend the contemporary significance of hate crime, it is necessary to understand how the concept emerged and gained acceptance, as well as how its meaning has been transformed over time and across the institutional spheres of the American policy-making process-from social movements to legislatures to appellate courts and, finally, to law enforcement. As the concept traversed these spheres, its definition and the scope of its application h…
Making Work, Making Trouble
Why have our efforts to 'clean up' prostitution failed? Even new programs, such as 'John Schools' for customers and training in life skills for service providers, have been ineffective. Deborah Brock asks if our approach to prostitution is fundamentally flawed. We generally think of it as a social problem, but prostitutes see it as a work relation. Anti-prostitution campaigns and attempts to regulate the sex trade have been made and re-made over …
The Homogenization and Differentiation of Hate Crime Law in the United States, 1978 to 1995
We view criminalization as a process of institutionalization that involves the diffusion of legal forms and practices. Conventional approaches to criminalization have been dominated by historical case studies that illuminate the collective action and social structural bases of shifts in crime policy by focusing on the dynamics internal to particular polities. Our event history analysis of U.S. states' adoption of hate crime laws indicates that cr…
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes
This work offers an empirical analysis of 32 gay/lesbian sponsored anti-violence projects in the United States. The analytic focus is on how gay and lesbian communities have brought attention to the scope and consequences of anti-gay and lesbian violence in the United States, which “has taken its place among such societal concerns as violence against women, children and ethnic and racial groups” (Comstock 1991:1). In large part, this is because w…
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes
Valerie Jenness, Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem, Social Problems, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 145-170
Making It Work
Hate Crimes
Reign of Terror Nasty Pictures in Our Heads Hatred Is Hip Resentment For the Thrill of It Reacting to a Personal Threat Ridding the World of Evil Organized Hate Hate Goes to School Minority against Minority Hate around the World Police Response The Law Rehab Grass Roots The Coming Crisis Appendix A. Boston Police Hate Crime Tabulations Appendix B. Hate Crime Statistics Act Notes References Index
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work
COYOTE (an acronym for “Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”) is the central organization in the social movement to challenge traditional definitions of prostitution as a social problem. Using historical documents, this work focuses on COYOTE's campaign to sever prostitution from its historical association with sin, crime, and illicit sex, and place the social problem of prostitution firmly in the discourse of work, choice and civil rights. COYOTE has…
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work
The Homogenization and Differentiation of Hate Crime Law in the United States, 1978 to 1995
We view criminalization as a process of institutionalization that involves the diffusion of legal forms and practices. Conventional approaches to criminalization have been dominated by historical case studies that illuminate the collective action and social structural bases of shifts in crime policy by focusing on the dynamics internal to particular polities. Our event history analysis of U.S. states' adoption of hate crime laws indicates that cr…
Appealing to Justice
Appealing to Justice is an unprecedented study of disputing in prison and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. The authors gained unique access to California prisoners and correctional officers, as well as to thousands of prisoners’ grievances. Quoting extensively from these data, they give voice to those who are rarely heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms in the literature—for example, about the…
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States
To comprehend the contemporary significance of hate crime, it is necessary to understand how the concept emerged and gained acceptance, as well as how its meaning has been transformed over time and across the institutional spheres of the American policy-making process-from social movements to legislatures to appellate courts and, finally, to law enforcement. As the concept traversed these spheres, its definition and the scope of its application h…
The Hate Crime Canon and Beyond
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work
COYOTE (an acronym for “Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”) is the central organization in the social movement to challenge traditional definitions of prostitution as a social problem. Using historical documents, this work focuses on COYOTE's campaign to sever prostitution from its historical association with sin, crime, and illicit sex, and place the social problem of prostitution firmly in the discourse of work, choice and civil rights. COYOTE has…
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work
Making It Work
Hate Crimes
Reign of Terror Nasty Pictures in Our Heads Hatred Is Hip Resentment For the Thrill of It Reacting to a Personal Threat Ridding the World of Evil Organized Hate Hate Goes to School Minority against Minority Hate around the World Police Response The Law Rehab Grass Roots The Coming Crisis Appendix A. Boston Police Hate Crime Tabulations Appendix B. Hate Crime Statistics Act Notes References Index
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes
This work offers an empirical analysis of 32 gay/lesbian sponsored anti-violence projects in the United States. The analytic focus is on how gay and lesbian communities have brought attention to the scope and consequences of anti-gay and lesbian violence in the United States, which “has taken its place among such societal concerns as violence against women, children and ethnic and racial groups” (Comstock 1991:1). In large part, this is because w…
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes
Valerie Jenness, Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem, Social Problems, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 145-170
The Homogenization and Differentiation of Hate Crime Law in the United States, 1978 to 1995
We view criminalization as a process of institutionalization that involves the diffusion of legal forms and practices. Conventional approaches to criminalization have been dominated by historical case studies that illuminate the collective action and social structural bases of shifts in crime policy by focusing on the dynamics internal to particular polities. Our event history analysis of U.S. states' adoption of hate crime laws indicates that cr…
Making Work, Making Trouble
Why have our efforts to 'clean up' prostitution failed? Even new programs, such as 'John Schools' for customers and training in life skills for service providers, have been ineffective. Deborah Brock asks if our approach to prostitution is fundamentally flawed. We generally think of it as a social problem, but prostitutes see it as a work relation. Anti-prostitution campaigns and attempts to regulate the sex trade have been made and re-made over …
The Hate Crime Canon and Beyond
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States
To comprehend the contemporary significance of hate crime, it is necessary to understand how the concept emerged and gained acceptance, as well as how its meaning has been transformed over time and across the institutional spheres of the American policy-making process-from social movements to legislatures to appellate courts and, finally, to law enforcement. As the concept traversed these spheres, its definition and the scope of its application h…
Making Hate a Crime
Inside Organized Racism
The Emergence, Content, and Institutionalization of Hate Crime Law
This review provides an overview of the emergence, content, and institutionalization of hate crime law as a unique form of criminal and civil rights law originating in the United States and increasingly finding a home in other countries. From the introduction and politicization of the term hate crime in the late 1970s to the increased enforcement of hate crime law at the beginning of the twenty-first century, social movements have constructed the…
Appealing to Justice
Appealing to Justice is an unprecedented study of disputing in prison and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. The authors gained unique access to California prisoners and correctional officers, as well as to thousands of prisoners’ grievances. Quoting extensively from these data, they give voice to those who are rarely heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms in the literature—for example, about the…
Gay Bashing
Often subsumed under the broader rubric of “hate crime,” gay bashing generally denotes the perpetration of violence against people identified as, or assumed to be, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgendered (LGBT). Although examples of this type of behavior range from acts of symbolic and rhetorical violence to ongoing bullying‐type behaviors, physical assaults, and homicide, selection of the victim based on perceived non‐normative sexuality an…
Hate Crimes
Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have "hate crimes" only recently become recog-nized as a serious social problem, especially in the United States? This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifested
Forty Years after Brownmiller
The Feminization of Transgender Women in Prisons for Men
In this article, we investigate the degree to which prison shapes transgender women’s perceptions of themselves as gendered people in prisons for men. Drawing on original data collected from 315 transgender women in 27 prisons for men in California, a mixed-methods analysis reveals that transgender women in prisons for men report higher levels of self-perceptions of femininity while incarcerated, especially for those who report sexual victimizati…
LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police
Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness on community views toward cops
Criminology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Hate crime (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)