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Article: British colonialism and the criminalization of homosexuality
Title | British colonialism and the criminalization of homosexuality |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2014, v. 27, n. 2, p. 268-288 How to Cite? |
Abstract | What explains the global variation in laws criminalizing homosexual conduct? Recent research has claimed that British colonialism is largely responsible for the criminalization of homosexuality around the world. This article utilizes a newly constructed dataset that includes up-to-date data on 185 countries to assess this claim. We find that British colonies are much more likely to have criminalization of homosexual conduct laws than other colonies or other states in general. This result holds after controlling for other variables that might be expected to influence the likelihood of repressive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights legislation. However, we also find that the evidence in favour of the claim that British imperialism 'poisoned' societies against homosexuality is weak. British colonies do not systematically take longer to decriminalize homosexual conduct than other European colonies. © 2014 © 2014 Centre of International Studies. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251072 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.601 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Han, Enze | - |
dc.contributor.author | O'Mahoney, Joseph | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-01T01:54:29Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-01T01:54:29Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2014, v. 27, n. 2, p. 268-288 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0955-7571 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251072 | - |
dc.description.abstract | What explains the global variation in laws criminalizing homosexual conduct? Recent research has claimed that British colonialism is largely responsible for the criminalization of homosexuality around the world. This article utilizes a newly constructed dataset that includes up-to-date data on 185 countries to assess this claim. We find that British colonies are much more likely to have criminalization of homosexual conduct laws than other colonies or other states in general. This result holds after controlling for other variables that might be expected to influence the likelihood of repressive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights legislation. However, we also find that the evidence in favour of the claim that British imperialism 'poisoned' societies against homosexuality is weak. British colonies do not systematically take longer to decriminalize homosexual conduct than other European colonies. © 2014 © 2014 Centre of International Studies. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cambridge Review of International Affairs | - |
dc.title | British colonialism and the criminalization of homosexuality | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09557571.2013.867298 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84902847091 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 27 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 268 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 288 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1474-449X | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000338008500005 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0955-7571 | - |