Sociology 3360F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lailani, Hicklin Test, Gay Panic Defense
8 Oct 2018
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The history of legal responses to lgbtq murders: historically, killing of lgbtq people was legally sanctioned, the subversive nature of same-sex relationships was used to rationalize violence and exploitation, battle of rights. Lethal and non-lethal violence experienced by lgbtq canadians: reporting of hate motivated crimes connected to the lgbtq community (*see slide for stats, hate crimes become more popular when intersectionality comes into play. I. e. , more than one minority status - transgender black woman. Trends from victimization surveys: anti-lgbtq violence in canada: men are more likely to experience homophobic and heterosexist victimization than women. Increase in hate crimes connected to sexual orientation: decrease in hate crimes against ethnicity. The homosexual panic defence: psychotic reaction to latent homosexual desire, lgbtq victims of violence experience blame, alienation from the larger heterosexual mainstream. A caution about enhanced sentencing: hate crimes are still under-reported, there is a low conviction rate for those that do come to the attention of the police.
