Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language

Contents......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Part I: Language Crimes, Conversational Strategies, and Language Power......Page 17
1. How Language Crimes Are Created......Page 19
2. Conversational Strategies Used to Create Crimes......Page 29
3. The Power of Conversational Strategies......Page 47
Part II: Uses by Cooperating Witnesses......Page 55
4. Overlapping, Ambiguity, and the Hit and Run in a Solicitation to Murder Case: Texas v. T. Cullen Davis......Page 57
5. Retelling, Scripting, and Lying in a Murder Case: Florida v. Alan Mackerley......Page 67
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......Page 75
7. Eleven Little Ambiguities and How They Grew in a Business Fraud Case: US v. Paul Webster and Joe Martino......Page 85
8. Discourse Ambiguity in a Contract Fraud Case: US v. David Smith......Page 97
9. Contamination and Manipulation in a Bribery Case: US v. Paul Manziel......Page 105
10. Scripting by Requesting Directives and Apologies in a Sexual Misconduct Case: Idaho v. J. Mussina......Page 115
Part III: Uses by Law Enforcement Officers......Page 123
11. Police Camouflaging in an Obstruction of Justice Case: US v. Brian Lett......Page 125
12. Police Camouflaging in a Purchasing Stolen Property Case: US v. Tariq Shalash......Page 133
13. A Rogue Cop and Every Strategy He Can Think Of: The Wenatchee Washington Sex Ring Case......Page 145
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......Page 153
15. Manipulating the Tape, Interrupting, Inaccurate Restatements, and Scripting in a Murder Case: Florida v. Jerry Townsend......Page 175
Part IV: Conversational Strategies as Evidence......Page 181
16. Eight Questions about the Power of Conversational Strategies in Undercover Police Investigations......Page 183
References Cited......Page 203
Cases Cited......Page 206
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