Criminal,
Civil Rights
Nov. 2, 2018
The intersection of LGBTQ domestic violence and criminal defense
At first glance, criminal defense and survivor rights lawyering may seem at odds, but in reality many similarities exist between these practice areas.
Christopher Hawthorne
Clinical Professor
Loyola Law School
Email: hawthorc@lls.edu
Christopher is director of the Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Domestic violence is a significant public health epidemic that impacts people across gender identity and sexual orientation. For some communities, such as for transgender people and bisexual women, the rates of domestic violence can be more than double or nearly triple those of non-LGBTQ people. And while LGBTQ people experience many of the same imbalances of power within an intimate partner relationship, a significant difference is that LGBTQ survivors confront many ...
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