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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Rape as Social Activity: an Application of Investigative Linguistics
- 2 The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder but Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape
- 3 ‘Just Good Friends’: Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles
- 4 The Questioning of Child Witnesses by the Police and in Court: a Linguistic Comparison
- 5 The Language of Consent in Rape Law
- 6 The Repertoire of Complicity vs. Coercion: the Discursive Trap of the Rape Trial Protocol
- 7 Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex
- 8 Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of Vulnerable Witnesses
- 9 The Victim as ‘Other’: Analysis of the Language of Acquittal Decisions in Sexual Offences in the Israeli Supreme Court
- 10 Sentencing Sexual Abuse Offenders: Sex Crimes and Social Justice
- 11 When Rape is (not quite) Rape
- 12 At the Hands of the Brothers: a Corpus-based Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- Index
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