ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of existing literature addressing crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and issues with Social, education, health and other sectors. It discusses prevalence of homophobic and transphobic crimes and impact of such crimes on sexual minority. LGBT youth face the risk of victimization everywhere at home, at school, at their jobs, and, for those who are out-of-home, at shelters and on the streets. Sexual abuse in childhood is another way of victimization. Researcher Farley Ned’s reveals the results of a 6 years clinical study, involving 288 respondents that sought to establish the correlation between incidents of sexual abuse in childhood and abusive behaviors in adult relationships. Homophobia is an ambiguous term because the prefix homo-can be traced to either Latin or Greek roots. Based on the Latin meaning, homophobia translates literally into “fear of man” or “fear of males”.
