"Trans Folks are in the Crosshairs": Jury Decision-Making and the Trans Panic Defense

The LGBTQ+ panic defense is a provocation defense strategy used to attain a lesser sentence for the defendant. It is often used by cisgender straight men to provide reasoning for a violent reaction to an unwanted sexual advance from an LGBTQ+ individual. Existing empirical work has examined juror pe...

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Authors: Michalski, Nicholas D. (Author) ; Kapp Bitter, Alexandra Nastasja 1987- (Author) ; Nuñez, Narina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 23/24, Pages: NP22453-NP22474
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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