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Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework
Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework Discover more about Forensic Linguistics, a fascinating cross-disciplinary field from an international team of renowned contributors Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework provides an overview of the range of forensic linguistic casework typically found in investigative and judicial contexts. In these case studies, the authors demonstrate how linguistic theory is applied in real-life forensic situations and the constraints and challenges they have to deal with. Drawing on linguistic expertise from the USA and Europe involving casework in English, Spanish, Danish and Portuguese, our contributing practitioners e...
Financial Crime Investigation and Control
The indispensable guide to detecting and solving financial crime inthe office Low-level financial crimes are a fact of life in the modernworkplace. Individually these crimes are rarely significant enoughto warrant the hiring of professional investigators, but if leftunchecked, small crimes add up to big losses. In companies withoutdedicated fraud investigators, detecting and solving low-levelcrimes generally falls to managers and internal auditors. FinancialCrime Investigation and Control offers tips, tools, and techniquesto help professionals who lack investigative experience stem thetide of small financial crimes before it becomes a tsunami. Inside you'll find expert guidance on investigating and uncoveringcommon types of fraud, including: * Credit card fraud * Consumer fraud * Kickbacks * Bid rigging * Inflated invoices * Inventory theft * Theft of cash * Travel and subsistence claims * Check fraud * ID fraud * Ghost employees * Misappropriation schemes * Computer-related crime * Financial statement fraud
Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts
Communication in Forensic Contexts provides in-depth coverage of the complex area of communication in forensic situations. Drawing on expertise from forensic psychology, linguistics and law enforcement worldwide, the text bridges the gap between these fields in a definitive guide to best practice. Offers best practice for understanding and improving communication in forensic contexts, including interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects, discourse in courtrooms, and discourse via interpreters Bridges the knowledge gaps between forensic psychology, forensic linguistics and law enforcement, with chapters written by teams bringing together expertise from each field Published in collaboration with the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, dedicated to furthering evidence-based practice and practice-based research amongst researchers and practitioners International, cross-disciplinary team includes contributors from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and from psychology, linguistics and forensic practice
Before My Actual Heart Breaks
WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD __________________________________________________ 'Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving' RODDY DOYLE 'A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up exactly where her heart belongs' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of When All is Said __________________________________________________ 'If I could go back to being sixteen again, I'd do things differently.' 'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee. When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. ...
An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics
This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations. With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises, and links to further reading, topics covered include: • Profiling from spoken and written texts; • Disputed meaning, and how meaning is made and evolves; • Interviewing techniques, including working around those who might be considered linguistically vulnerable; • Author and speaker determination; • Audio enhancement and authentication of recordings; • Language analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP). Accompanied by online audio and video resources as well as signposting readers to freely available software to aid their studies, this book is the ideal springboard for students beginning work in forensic phonetics, forensic speech science, forensic linguistics, and law and language.
The Last Emir
Risk everything... fight to the last. The relics of Christendom have been plundered during the long Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsula. Newly minted Templar Sergeant Arnau de Vallbona must recover one of the most elusive to save his priory at Rourell in Spain. Travelling to Majorca on a stealth mission to retrieve the bones of St Stephen, Arnau soon discovers the raid is more complex than it first appears: the mighty Almohad dynasty has laid claim to the island, and will fight them every step of the way. Along with his companion, the aged warrior Balthesar, Arnau is in desperate straits. Surrounded on all sides by hostile forces, it will take all their cunning and strength to escape with their prize – and their lives.... A thrilling and unexplored account of the Knights Templar, grounded in extraordinary research, The Last Emir is perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, K.M. Ashman and C.F. Iggulden.
Willing's Press Guide
"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.
The Oxford Handbook of Lying
This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers in these fields and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.
