Violence & Crime

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  Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail

  By Sharon Dolovich
  January 2013
  

  Gay male and transgender women prisoners are vulnerable to sexual assault behind bars. Rather than ignoring the problem or confining members of these groups to solitary confinement, the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail segregates them into a special unit called “K6G.” Drawing on extensive interviews with K6G residents and with the officers in charge of the unit, Dolovich concludes that the K6G unit offers a plausible model, if not the only one, for protecting gay male and transgender women detainees from sexual assault.

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  Sexual Orientation Disparities in History of Intimate Partner Violence: Results From the California Health Interview Survey

  By Naomi G. Goldberg, Ilan H. Meyer
  September 2012
  

  Bisexual women and gay men had elevated risks of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). For bisexual women, 95% of IPV annual incidents reported occurred outside a same-sex relationship. Almost all (97%) of the annual incidents of IPV incidents occurring to male victims involved a male intimate partner. Lesbians were not at higher risk for intimate partner violence.

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• Comparison of Hate Crime Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups – An Update

  By Rebecca L. Stotzer
  May 2012
  

  New research based on FBI data show that gay men face higher rates of hate-motivated physical violence than lesbians, bisexuals or other federally protected groups with high rates of hate crimes. The study is the first to consider FBI data on hate crimes against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals separately.

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• Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison

  By Sharon Dolovich
  July 2011
  

  Gay and transgender people are disproportionately vulnerable to sexual assault behind bars. Rather than ignoring the problem or confining members of these groups to solitary confinement while in custody, the L.A. County Jail segregates them into a special housing unit called “K6G.” Dolovich’s article, originally published in the American Criminal Law Review, carefully describes how detainees are identified for inclusion in K6G and responds to some constitutional and moral objections to “strategic segregation” based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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• Comparison of Hate Crime Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups

  By Rebecca Stotzer
  June 2007
  

  Sexual orientation and gender identity are not currently covered by federal hate crime laws. This analysis compares victimization rates for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals with groups already covered by hate crime laws.

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• Constitutional Analysis of AB 1160: Validity of Due Process Challenges to Legislation Eliminating Gay and Trans Panic Defenses in California

  By R. Bradley Sears and Elizabeth Kukura
  February, 2005
  

  Would a statute that defined sufficient provocation for “sudden quarrel” or “heat of passion” to exclude gay and trans panic defenses violate defendants’ due process rights?

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• The Real Story of U.S. Hate Crime Statistics: An Empirical Analysis

  By William B. Rubenstein
  June 2003
  

  Through the first careful empirical analysis, William Rubenstein constructs a different, more nuanced, story of Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA) data: before September 11, three groups in the US – gay people, Jewish people, and African-Americans, in that order – reported by far the greatest number of hate crimes.

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• Brief of Amici Curiae: Lawrence and Garner v. Texas

  By William Rubenstein and Pamela S. Karlan
  March 2003
  

  for the Supreme Court’s Review of Texas’ Sodomy Law, Lawrence and Garner v. Texas

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