Speaking of Crime (2005) provides a comprehensive overview of how linguistic analysis intersects with the U.S. criminal‑justice system, covering topics such as the language of police‑suspect interactions, the admissibility of linguistic expert testimony, and the legal treatment of “crimes of language.” The work devotes entire chapters to speaker‑identification research (forensic phonetics) and to authorship attribution in contested documents, outlining standards for evaluating voice and written evidence in court.
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