What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People? Update

An update to Interrupting Criminalization’s 2019 publication What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People?

This report was written by Andrea J. Ritchie and Rachael Zafer, with data analysis and drafting support by Craig Brozefsky.

This update to Interrupting Criminalization’s 2019 publication What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People? comes as we enter into a new phase of rising authoritarianism and fascism across the United States, which necessarily will be operationalized through intensified policing, criminalization, imprisonment, detention, and deportations.

Our goal is to offer updated and expanded information on how and where women and LGBTQ people are already facing heightened and disproportionate criminalization, to highlight where and how it is likely to increase in the current climate, and to point to where and how we need to focus our organizing and advocacy efforts in order to block and blunt the impacts of rising Right wing “law and order” agendas on women, queer and trans people.