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Acknowledgments | |
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A Good Time to Study the Language of Criminal Justice | |
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Language and the Criminal Law | |
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The Language of Police and Suspects | |
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Linguistic Evidence Crimes of Language Some Goals and Limitations | |
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Linguistics in the Law | |
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The Subsystems of Language | |
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Word Meaning: Two Ways of Thinking Discourse and Inferences from Context | |
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Linguistics in the Courts | |
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Linguistics and the Admissibility of Expert Evidence in American Courts | |
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Gathering the Evidence | |
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"Consensual" Searches | |
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The Bustamonte Case | |
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Requests versus Commands | |
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Consenting Racial Profiling | |
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Conclusion | |
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Interrogation, Confession, and the Right to Counsel Invoking the Right to Counsel | |
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The Meaning of "Interrogation"Interrogation and the Problem of False Confessions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Understanding Miranda | |
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The Rise of Miranda | |
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Reading Rights | |
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Suspects with Low Intelligence or Mental Problems Juveniles | |
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Suspects Whose Native Language Is Not English Deaf Defendants | |
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How Can Comprehension Be Improved? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Linguistic Evidence in Court | |
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Exact Words | |
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Forget about It: Human Memory for Verbatim Speech | |
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The Legal System's Response: Substance Is Good Enough | |
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Jailhouse Informants | |
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Language Crimes without the Language | |
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Conclusion | |
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Who Said That? | |
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Legal Standards for Identifying Speakers | |
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Voice Recognition Research and the Reliability of Identifications | |
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Expert Speaker Identification | |
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Conclusion | |
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Who Wrote That? | |
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Hauptmannand the Document Examiners | |
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Leaving It to the Jury | |
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The Return of the Experts? | |
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Some Promise for an Improved Science of Authorship Attribution | |
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Some Easier Cases | |
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Conclusion | |
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Crimes of Language | |
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Solicitation, Conspiracy, Bribery | |
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Solicitation | |
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Conspiracy Bribery | |
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Threats | |
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What Constitutes a Threat? | |
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Indirect and Ambiguous Threats | |
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Political Hyperbole | |
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Conclusion | |
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Perjury | |
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The Bronston Case | |
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Did Clinton Lie? | |
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Perjury and Lying Conclusion | |
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Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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Law Enforcement | |
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Legislatures and the Executive Branch | |
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Courts Attorneys | |
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Linguists, Psychologists, and Other Scholars | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |