Brian J. Frederick is a queer criminologist.They currently serve as an assistant professor of criminal justice at SUNY Empire State College in Brooklyn.

In 2016, Frederick completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Global and Cultural Criminology program at the School of Social Policy, Sociology & Social Research at the University of Kent (Canterbury, England) and the Institute für Kriminologische Sozialforschung at University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany).

Their research focuses on how the ongoing commercialization,^[1] commodification and gentrification^[2] of queer physical space (i.e., ‘gay ghettos’) and queer virtual space affects sexual experiences among gay, bisexual and queer men (GBQM). Their research also looks at the impact of criminal justice and public health interventions, as well as the stigmatisation, marginalisation and oppression of GBQM by contemporary gay culture.^[3]

Several areas in which Frederick is actively researching include:

• Intimate partner violence and intimate partner homicide in same-sex relationships, including where transgender individuals are victims
• Serial murder involving gay, bisexual and queer male victims and perpetrators
• Queer male drug use
• Critical criminological pedagogy^[4]

Frederick's research takes a critical stance towards current criminal justice policies and public health strategies that target gay, bisexual, and queer male drug users.

Frederick is a subject-matter expert on numerous episodes of Meet, Marry, Murder, which launched on the True Crime Network (U.S.) and the Crime & Investigation network (U.K.) in Spring 2021. He also features as a subject matter expert on Making a Serial Killer, a U.S. television series that profiles North American serial killers. The series launched on Amazon Prime and Apple TV in January 2022.

Additionally, Frederick has made numerous media appearances on topics such as American politics, the U.S. criminal justice system, the 'Dark Web, U.K. knife crime, psychopathy, and the Salisbury poisonings, among others.

• Frederick, Brian Jay (in print). Mediated representations of queer male drug use. Salud & Sociedad.
• Suguira, L., Button, M., Tapley, J. Blackbourn, D, Frederick, B.J. & Hawkins, C.D. Computer misuse as a facilitator of domestic abuse. U.K. Home Office
• 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

• 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.

• Dr Brian Frederick, University of Portsmouth Research Portal
• Brian Frederick, DCGC candidate bio
• DCGC – Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology | PhD Programme in Criminology