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'''Innovative defenses''' (a term of [[jurisprudence]]) are [[defense]]s, perhaps best categorized as [[justification]]s and/or [[excuse]]s, which are relatively new and untried (and thus have little [[precedent]]); via which, a [[defendant]] may argue that they should not be held [[crime|criminally]] [[liability|liable]] for [[action]]s which broke the [[law]]. 

These defenses include the 
* [[abuse defense]], 
* the [[premenstrual stress syndrome]], 
* the [[biological defense]]s, 
* the [[black rage]] defense,
* the "[[homosexual panic]]" defense 
* the "[[Twinkie defense]]"
* and the [[urban survival syndrome]].