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LGBT Homicide Infographic 2024

This infographic is authored May 2024 by Audriaunna Wylie.

 

References

[1] Drake, D. (2004). Recognizing gay homicide. Center for Homicide Research.
http://homicidecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07Research_Brief_Recognizing_Gay_Homicide.pdf

[2] Rosario, R. (2012, January 7). Ruben Rosario: Haunted by one killing, researcher studies
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[3] Drake, D. S. (2016). Intrapsychic motivations in stranger homicides involving gay or bisexual males. In Swart, J. & Mellor, L. (Eds.) Homicide (pp. 291-312). Routledge.

[4] Murder Accountability Project. (2023, December 17). Clearance rates. Murderdata.org. https://www.murderdata.org/p/blog-page.html

[5] Everytown. (2024, February 13). New everytown data on transgender homicides reveals
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[6] Cooper, A. (2023, November 17). Murders of LGBTQ+ people often go unsolved.
Advocate. https://www.advocate.com/crime/lgbtq-cold-case-files

[7] Swan, W. (Ed.). (2014). Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights: A public
policy agenda for uniting a divided America. CRC Press.

[8] Woods, J. B. (2017). LGBT identity and crime. California Law Review, 105, 667-733.[9] ACLU. (2024). Mapping attacks on LGBTQ rights in U.S. state legislatures in 2024.
American Civil Liberties Union.
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[10] Birnstengel, G. (2023, March 8). Will attack of Minneapolis trans woman be charged as a
hate crime? What to know. MPR News.
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charged-as-a-hate-crime-what-to-know

[11] Brookman, F., Maguire, E. R., & Maguire, M. (2019). What factors influence whether
homicide cases are solved? Insights from qualitative research with detectives in Great
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[12] Cornell Law School. (2021). Sodomy. Legal Information Institute.
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[13] Cruz, M. K. (2022, March 7). Policing the rainbow. School of social ecology. University
of California, Irvine. https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/policing-rainbow

[14] Dayan, H. (2024). Exploring sexual homicide by overarching groups of victims. Crime &
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[15] DeJong, C., Holt, K., Helm, B., & Morgan, S. J. (2021). “A human being like other
victims”: The media framing of trans homicide in the United States. Critical
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[16] Durso, L., Rooney, C., Gruberg, S., Singh, S., Mirza, S., Bewkes, F., Ridings, A., Clark,
D., Photo, A., & Roberson, J. (2017). Advancing LGBTQ equality through local executive
action. American Press.https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2017/08/11133631/LGBTexecAction-re
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[17] Geberth, V. J. (2006). Practical homicide investigation: Tactics, procedures, and forensic
techniques (4th ed.). CRC/Taylor & Francis.

[18] Lavietes, M. (2023, June 12). NYC launches program to reexamine gay bar drugging and
homicide cases. NBC News.
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ine-gay-bar-drugging-homicide-cases-rcna88446

[19] Lopez, E., & Boxerman, B. (2024, January). Crime trends in U.S. cities: Year-End 2023
update. Council on Criminal Justice. https://counciloncj.org/year-end-2023-crime-trends/

[20] Palmer, N. A., & Kutateladze, B. L. (2021). What prosecutors and the police should do
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[21] Project: Cold Case. (2022). Cold case homicide stats. Project: Cold Case.
https://projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/

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