Creating language crimes : how law enforcement uses (and misuses) language / Roger W. Shuy.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Police -- United States.

Police questioning -- United States.

Introduction --Part 1. Language crimes, conversational strategies, and language power: 1. How language crimes are created

2. Conversational strategies used to create crimes

3. The power of conversational strategies

Part 2. Uses by cooperating witnesses: 4. Overlapping, ambiguity, and the hit and run in a solicitation to murder case: Texas v. T. Cullen Davis

5. Retelling, scripting, and lying in a murder case: Florida v. Alan Mackerley

6. Interrupting, overlapping, lying, not taking "No" for an answer, and representing illegality differently to separate targets in a stolen property case: US v. Prakesh Patel and Daniel Houston

7. Eleven little ambiguities and how they grew in a business fraud case: US v. Paul Webster and Joe Martino

8. Discourse ambiguity in a contract fraud case: US v. David Smith

9. Contamination and manipulation in a bribery case: US v. Paul Manziel

10. Scripting by requesting directives and apologies in a sexual misconduct case: Idaho v. J. Mussina

Part 3. Uses by law enforcement officers: 11. Police camouflaging in an obstruction of justice case: US v. Brian Lett

12. Police camouflaging in a purchasing stolen property case: US v. Tariq Shalash

13. A rogue cop and every strategy he can think of: the Wenatchee Washington sex ring case

14. An undercover policeman uses ambiguity, hit and run, interrupting, scripting, and refusing to take "No" for an answer in a solicitation to murder case: the Crown v. Mohammed Arshad

15. Manipulating the tape, interrupting, inaccurate restatements, and scripting in a murder case: Florida v. Jerry Townsend

Part 4. Conversational strategies as evidence: 16. Eight questions about the power of conversational strategies in undercover police investigations

References cited

Cases cited

Index.

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