St. Edward’s University Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Carsten Andresen is shedding light on a controversial legal strategy, called the gay/trans panic defense, in what is believed to be the largest analysis of gay/trans panic defense murder cases in the social sciences so far.

This is the setting for a virtual crime scene in Associate Professor of Forensic Science Casie Parish Fisher’s Crime Scene Investigations class, where students use virtual reality (VR) goggles and investigate evidence that could be found at a real crime scene.