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There has been an extended engagement with how young people experience policing, with a focus on the intersection between policing and indigeneity, ethnicity, gender, and social class. Interestingly, sexuality and/or gender diversity has been almost completely overlooked, both nationally and internationally. This paper reports on LGBT youth service providers’ accounts about police and LGBT young people interactions. It overviews the outcomes of semi-structured interviews with key LGBT youth service providers in different regions of Brisbane, Queensland. As the first qualitative engagement with these issues from the perspective of service providers, it highlights not only how LGBT young people experience policing, but also how service providers need to ‘work the system’ of policing to produce the best outcomes for LGBT young people.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	service providers, LGBT youth, policing, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, support staff
Research Division:	Studies in Human Society
Research Group:	Criminology
Research Field:	Police Administration, Procedures and Practice
Objective Division:	Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:	Justice and the Law
Objective Field:	Law Enforcement
UTAS Author:	Dwyer, AE (Dr Angela Dwyer)
ID Code:	106058
Year Published:	2009
Deposited By:	Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2016-01-27
Last Modified:	2016-02-16
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