TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Criminalising gender diversity: trans and gender diverse people's experiences with the Victorian criminal legal system
JO  - International journal for crime, justice and social democracy
A1  - Mitchell, Matthew
A1  - McCrory, Adrien
A1  - Skaburskis, Isabelle
A1  - Appleton, Brenda
SP  - 99
EP  - 112
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - Trans and gender diverse (TGD) people are disproportionately criminalised and face unique vulnerabilities when interacting with the criminal legal system. However, very little is known about TGD people's experiences of criminalisation in Australia or the strategies TGD people and their advocates use to navigate the criminal legal system. Based on survey responses from TGD people with lived experience of criminalisation and lawyers with experience representing TGD clients, this article identifies several critical issues with the criminal legal system's treatment of TGD people and outlines the strategies TGD people and their representatives suggest to address these issues. On this basis, we argue that criminologists and criminal legal practitioners urgently need to interrogate and work towards ameliorating the criminal legal system's treatment of gender diversity. These insights will be crucial in informing future advocacy efforts and reform agendas, given that knowledge in this area is severely lacking.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2202-7998
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2225
ID  - ref1
ER  -