The Language of Sexual Crime [Hardcover]

The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Rape as Social Activity: An Application of Investigative Linguistics; T.Grant & J.Woodhams The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder But Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape; S.Berk-Seligson 'Just Good Friends': Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles; K.Benneworth The Questioning of Child Witnesses: A Comparison of the Child's Linguistic Experience in the Initial Interview and in the Courtroom Cross-Examination; M.Aldridge The Language of Consent in Rape Law; P.Tiersma The Repertoire of Complicity Vs. Coercion: The Discursive Trap of the Rape Trial Protocol; D.Ponterotto Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex; S.Ehrlich Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of Vulnerable Witnesses; E.S.M.Leung & J.Gibbons The Victim As 'Other': Analysis of the Language of Acquittal Decisions in Sexual Offences in the Israeli Supreme Court; B.Bogoch Sentencing Sexual Abuse Offenders: Sex Crimes and Social Justice; C.MacMartin & L.A.Wood When Rape Is (Not Quite) Rape; A.Mooney At the Hands of the Brothers: A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases; A.O'Keefe & M.Breen Index

As with any collected volume of work, there is a degree of variance in the quality of submissions. In this case, however, the range is simply from excellent to superb. Novices in the field are presented alongside veterans from the Forensic Linguistic circuit, and they keep up with the expectations of rigid, thorough, and professional scholarship that has become the standard in this arelãq