Crimal Jtice rearcher Carsten Andren analyzed 99 murr s, which took place om 2000 to 2019, that ed the gay/trans panic fense.
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ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSY REARCHER ANALYZ 99 GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE CAS
99Used reference to homosexual sex. ‘Let’s troduce a gay character and quickly kill them off, ’ so you have the ri of the plexy of this amazg character, but also [you do] not necsarily al wh them over the urse of our entire show. Edward’s Universy Associate Profsor of Crimal Jtice Carsten Andren is sheddg light on a ntroversial legal strategy, lled the gay/trans panic fense, what is believed to be the largt analysis of gay/trans panic fense murr s the social scienc so far.
In his study, tled “Comparg the Gay and Trans Panic Defense, ” Andren lv to the siari and differenc of 99 gay/trans panic fense s, which took place om 2000 to 2019, where a crimal fendant sought to jtify or exce a murr g a gay/trans panic fense strategy. The study, which foc on provotn and self-fense strategi, divis the s to three tegori — total gay/ trans murrs, gay murrs, and trans murrs. Overall, his analysis found that most of the fendants who raised gay or trans panic fens were charged and nvicted of murr, but that’s only part of the story, Andren said.
“Gay men and trans women still rema vulnerable to fatal vlence bee of the gay and trans panic fens. One of the herent problems self-fense gay or trans panic arguments is that often flips the tradnal scripted rol of the urtroom and directs spicn toward the victims. “An allegatn of sexual asslt impli that the victims, who were gay or transgenr, were sexual predators rather than victims, ” Andren said.