The Language of Sexual Crime
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230001701
Subjects: Courts & procedure; Crime & criminology; Criminal or forensic psychology; Discourse analysis; Criminology; Human Sexuality; Linguistics; Semantics; Social Science / Criminology; Social Science; Sociology
Description: The Language of Sexual Crime considers: the law and language of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse; the detection of sexually-motivated crime through linguistic analysis; police interview techniques used with victims and perpetrators; examination and cross-examination of victims and perpetrators at trial; judicial reports and public inquiries involving sexual abuse or assault cases; the reporting of rape or sexual assault cases in the media.