THE LANGUAGE OF SEXUAL CRIME

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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 sexuallymotivated crime and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews the courtrooList 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.BerkSeligson Just Good Friends: Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles: K.Benneworth The Questioning of Child Witnesses: A Comparison of the Childs Linguistic Experience in the Initial Interview and in the Courtroom CrossExamination: 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 CorpusBased LexicoGrammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A.OKeefe &amAs 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 AMICHELLE ALDRIDGE is Senior Lecturer Centre for Language and Communication Cardiff University UKKELLY BENNEWORTH is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of York UKSUSAN BERKSELIGSON 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 PortugueseBRYNA BOGOCH is Senior Lecturer Departments of Political Studies and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Bar Ilan University IsraelMICHAEL 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 Depar

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