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Biography
Brian J. Frederick is a cultural criminologist and Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Policing at the University of Portsmouth‘s Institute of Criminal Justice Studies. He completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Global and Cultural Criminology programme at the School of Social Policy, Sociology & Social Research (SSPSSR) at the University of Kent (Canterbury, England) and at the Institut für Kriminologische Sozialforschung (IKS) at the Universität Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany). His research focuses on the ways in which the ongoing commercialisation, commodification and gentrification of gay/queer physical space (i.e., ‘gay ghettos’) and gay/queer virtual space has led to the emergence of counter-homonormative virtual spaces (e.g., online bulletin boards, online social-sexual networks, web-based social networking applications) which are used to facilitate the sharing of drug-driven sexual experiences (e.g., 'barebacking', 'party 'n' play', 'bug chasing/gift giving') among gay, bisexual and queer men (GBQM). He also explores the stigmatisation, marginalisation and oppression of GBQM by contemporary gay culture, specifically, as well as by the gay rights movement, generally—a subject that has received little attention among academic researchers.
In addition to the study of GBQM drug use, he also examines critical criminological pedagogy.
Publications
- Frederick, Brian Jay (2016). Exploring the (Sub)Cultural Aspects of Gay, Bisexual and Queer Male Drug Use in Cyberspace. Doctor of Philosophy [PhD] Thesis. University of Kent, University of Hamburg.
- Thanki, D. & Frederick, B. (2016). 'Social media and drug markets', The internet and drug markets (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction: Insights 21), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
- Frederick, B.J. & Gil Larruscahim, P. (2016). Cultural criminology. In W.G. Jennings [Ed.] The Wiley Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment (p. 1). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- Frederick, B.J. & Perrone, D. (2014). "'Party N Play' on the Internet: Subcultural formation, Craigslist, and escaping from stigma." Deviant Behavior 35: 859-884.
- Frederick, B.J. (2013). "Delinquent boys": Toward a new understanding of "deviant" and transgressive behavior in gay men. Critical Criminology, 21(4):10.1007/s10612-013-9230-3
- Frederick, B. J. (2012). The marginalization of critical perspectives in public criminal justice core curricula. Western Criminological Review, 13(3), 21-33.
- The Risks of Using Gay & MSM "Hookup" Technologies
- Frederick, B., & Fradella, H. (2012). Leopold and Loeb. In Wilbur R. Miller (Ed.), The social history of crime and punishment in America: An encyclopedia. (pp. 1005-1006). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781452218427.n394
Suggested readings
- Ball, M. (2013). Queer Criminology, Critique, and the “Art of Not Being Governed”. Critical Criminology, 1-14.
- Ball, M. (2014). What’s Queer About Queer Criminology?. In Handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice (pp. 531–555). Springer New York.
- Buist, C. L., & Stone, C. (2013). Transgender Victims and Offenders: Failures of the United States Criminal Justice System and the Necessity of Queer Criminology. Critical Criminology, 1-13.
- Panfil, V. R. (2013). Better left unsaid? The role of agency in queer criminological research. Critical Criminology, 1-13.
- Woods, J.B. (2013). Queer Contestations and the Future of a Critical “Queer” Criminology. Critical Criminology, 1-15.