Literature on sexuality in criminological contexts exists, yet much of it is sex-negative, employs a "deviance frame," and regards many sex acts as dangerous or destructive. Although research that could be considered sex-positive has been undertaken, an explicitly sex-positive theoretical and practical framework for feminist criminology has not yet been advanced. In this article, we propose "thick desire" as a way to envision an intersectional sex-positive feminist criminology that aligns with the principles of a positive sexuality approach to research and praxis. We explore the issue of criminalization of teen sexting to begin to integrate these principles.

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In the last decade, queer criminology (QC) has emerged as a subfield of criminological research examining criminal-legal experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals. Preceding and concurrent with this subfield, humanistic, and legal scholars outside criminology have worked to produce intersectional theorizations of queer, trans, and racial justice within and beyond the criminal legal system. However, numerous tenets of the latter literature have not been widely recognized by or integrated into QC scholarship. In this article, we consider how QC might more pointedly engage with this literature. We focus on how the concept of abolition has been mobilized in non-criminological theorizations of queer, trans, Black feminist, and racial justice, and how and why centering abolition in QC literature would positively shape QC’s legacy.