Wordcrime Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics

Wordcrime features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death, code deciphering, arson and even genocide. Olsson describes the evidence he gave in each one. In approachable and clear prose, he details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals. This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.

Introduction \ Part 1 \ 1.The barrel killer \ 2. The bicycle murder \ 3. Heroin smuggling into a prison \ 4.Did the Da Vinci Code plagiarise the works of other authors? \ 5. The Diary that told all \ 6. The man with the baseball bat \ 7. Reputable barrister or manipulative Svengali? \ Part II \ 8. Murder or suicide? \ 9. What happened to Jenny \ 10. A case of medical disinformation \ 11. Strategies for code: a prisoner's dilemma \ 12. A genocide in Rwanda \ 13. Death threats in the Tropics \ 14. Fitted up by a 'professional': falsely accused \ 15. On death row \ Part III \ 16. Betrayed by a full stop \ 17. A bland paedophile \ 18. Prosecutor memo leads to abuse of process ruling \ 19. Letters from Anonymous \ 20. Return to sender \ 21. Was it Ernie or Ronnie? \ 22. The witness stated...but did he? \ 23. People trafficking and the language of trauma \ Glossary \ Bibliography \ Index