The Language of Sexual Crime

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349280062
• ISBN13: 9781349280063
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"