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Creating Language Crimes - How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language (Hardcover, New)
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Creating Language Crimes - How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language (Hardcover, New)
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This book by Roger W. Shuy, the senior figure in forensic
linguistics, is the first to explain in an accessible way the vital
role that linguistic evidence and its proper analysis play in
criminal investigations. Shuy provides compelling case studies of
how language functions in investigations involving, among others,
wired undercover operatives, and the interrogation of suspects. He
makes the point that language evidence can be as important as
physical evidence, but yet does not enjoy the same degree of
scrutiny by investigators, attorneys, and the courts. Beyond this,
however, his more controversial thesis is that police frequently
misuse or manipulate language, using various powerful controversial
strategies, in order to intentionally create an impression of the
targets' guilt or even to get them to confess. attorneys, law
enforcement officers, judges, and juries This book makes its case
by analyzing a dozen criminal cases involving a variety of crimes,
such as fraud, bribery, stolen property, murder, and others. About
half involve co-operating witnesses who do the tape recording, and
the other half undercover police officers. These cases demonstrate
how undercover operatives use different conversational strategies,
such as overlapping conversation, ambiguity, interruption, refusing
to take "no" for an answer, and others to create a negative
impression of the targets on later listeners. Creating Language
Crimes provides a fascinating window into a little-known and
discussed facet of law enforcement. It will appeal to anyone
concerned with language (particularly sociolinguists and discourse
analysts), as well as to those involved in law enforcement and
criminal cases. the appearance of such crime is created, law
enforcement has not reached its evidentiary goal. Eleven
conversational strategies were used in the twelve actual criminal
cases described in this book.
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