Gay and Lesbian Intimate Partner Abuse
Bryan L. Williams
Victimology 326
Professor Boyd/Excelsior College
September 29, 2014
Introduction
Partner violence is almost exclusively of heterosexual partners, however there is very limited information about prevalence and incidence of partner violence in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities. There is a growing evidence to suggests that same-gender partner violence is more common as heterosexual partner violence (Farley, 1996; Renzetti, 1992). The dynamics of these types of violence crimes in the same-sex gender relationships are all too common to heterosexual partner violence (verbal threats, public humiliation, and destruction of property, abuse of children, sexual
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