CULTURE: Yale Study Shows LGB Adolescents Receive Punishment More Than Straight Counterparts

A new Yale University study shows that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to receive punishment at the hands of school authorities, police and the courts, according to research published in the January 2011 issue of Pediatrics and released online today (December 6, 2010) here.

The study found that LGB youth actually engaged in less violence than their peers, but punishments including school expulsions, arrests, juvenile convictions, adult convictions and especially police stops were more frequently enforced on them.

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