The Language of Sexual Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Rape as Social Activity: an Application of Investigative Linguistics

   • Tim Grant, Jessica Woodhams

   Pages 1-15

3. The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder but Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape

   • Susan Berk-Seligson

   Pages 16-41

4. ‘Just Good Friends’: Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles

   • Kelly Benneworth

   Pages 42-62

5. The Questioning of Child Witnesses by the Police and in Court: a Linguistic Comparison

   • Michelle Aldridge

   Pages 63-82

6. The Language of Consent in Rape Law

   • Peter M. Tiersma

   Pages 83-103

7. The Repertoire of Complicity vs. Coercion: the Discursive Trap of the Rape Trial Protocol

   • Diane Ponterotto

   Pages 104-125

8. Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex

   • Susan Ehrlich

   Pages 126-138

9. Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of Vulnerable Witnesses

   • Ester S. M. Leung, John Gibbons

   Pages 139-158

10. The Victim as ‘Other’: Analysis of the Language of Acquittal Decisions in Sexual Offences in the Israeli Supreme Court

    • Bryna Bogoch

    Pages 159-179

11. Sentencing Sexual Abuse Offenders: Sex Crimes and Social Justice

    • Clare MacMartin, Linda A. Wood

    Pages 180-197

12. When Rape is (not quite) Rape

    • Annabelle Mooney

    Pages 198-216

13. At the Hands of the Brothers: a Corpus-based Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases

    • Anne O’Keeffe, Michael J. Breen

    Pages 217-236

14. Back Matter

    Pages 237-246

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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.

• child
• crime
• identity
• police
• violence

"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 area of study. Janet Cotterill has certainly selected and assembled an impressive collection of work that will contribute to advances in the research of criminal acts, and specifically sexual crime, for many years to come."

- Kerry Linfoot, Department of English, United States Air Force Academy

• Cardiff University, UK

  Janet Cotterill

MICHELLE ALDRIDGE is Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University, UK KELLY BENNEWORTH is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK SUSAN BERK-SELIGSON is Associate Director for Graduate Studies of the Centre for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University, USA where she is also Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese BRYNA BOGOCH is Senior Lecturer, Departments of Political Studies and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Bar Ilan University, Israel MICHAEL J. BREEN is Head of Department, Media & Communication Studies and Joint Director, Centre for Culture, Technology and Values, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland SUSAN EHRLICH is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto, Canada JOHN GIBBONS retired recently from Hong Kong Baptist University , and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia TIM GRANT is Lecturer in the Forensic Section of the School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK ESTER S. M. LEUNG teaches on the Translation Programme, Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist College, Hong Kong CLARE MACMARTIN is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Canada ANNABELLE MOONEY is Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics program, Roehampton University, UK ANNE O'KEEFFE is lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland DIANE PONTEROTTO is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of L'Aquila, Italy PETER TIERSMA is Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, USA LINDA A. WOOD is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph, Canada JESSICA WOODHAMS is Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester, UK

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