Scott De Orio is an independent scholar and political and legal historian whose research focuses on the history of the regulation and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people. His first book project, Policing Gay Sex: Male Homosexuality and the Expansion of the Carceral State in Modern America (in production) examines the creation and expansion of carceral power over a matrix of forms of gay male sex. De Orio’s second book project in progress, The Children’s Crusade: Governing Child Sexuality in the Modern Transatlantic World, examines the development of state responses to child sexual abuse from the Enlightenment to the present. His writing has appeared or will appear in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Law & Social Inquiry, the Journal of American Constitutional History, and the edited collection The War on Sex (Duke, 2017).