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Palgrave Macmillan. Houndmills, UK and New York, USA. 2007. 261 pages. Index included. ISBN-13: 978-0-230-00170-1 hardback ISBN-10: 0-230-00170-X hardback
Rape as Social Activity: an Application of Investigative Linguistics The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder but Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape 'Just Good Friends': Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles The Questioning of Child Witnesses by the Police and in Court: a Linguistic Comparison The Language of Consent in Rape Law The Repertoire of Complicity vs. Coercion: the Discursive Trap of the Rape Trial Protocol Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of Vulnerable Witnesses The Victim as 'Other': Analysis of the Language of Acquittal Decisions in Sexual Offences in the Israeli Supreme Court Sentencing Sexual Abuse Offenders: Sex Crimes and Social Justice When Rape is (not quite) Rape At the Hands of the Brothers: a Corpus-based Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases
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The Language of Sexual Crime Edited by
Janet Cotterill
The Language of Sexual Crime
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Contents
List of Tables
vii
List of Figures
ix
Acknowledgements
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Notes on the Contributors
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1 Rape as Social Activity: an Application of Investigative Linguistics Tim Grant and Jessica Woodhams
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2 The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder but Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape Susan Berk-Seligson
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3 ‘Just Good Frie