The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Editors and Contributors

List of Contributors

Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. Introduction

I. M. Nick

Section I: Providing Expertise as a Consultant

2. The Integrity of Forensic Analysis

Robin T. Bowen

3. Ethics and Professional Conduct Oversight in Forensic Linguistic Expert Evidence

Isabel Picornell

4. The Expert’s Role in the Justice System is to Provide Impartial and Transparent Evidence, Not to Perform Social Advocacy

Richard Rhodes and Tina Cambier-Langeveld

5. Ethical Issues Encountered in Forensic Linguistic Practice: Case Examples inspired by Real Life Cases

Tina Cambier-Langeveld and Richard Rhodes

6. Maintaining Professional Distancing in Social Justice Cases of Non-Native Speakers

Margaret van Naerssen

7. An Intelligence Scaffold to Aid Ethical Considerations in Forensic Linguistic Casework

Ria Perkins, Sharon Glaas, and James Rosie

8. Psychological Biasing in Forensic Linguistic Research: Is such information obtained expertly and ethically?

Ray Bull and Iris Blandón-Gitlin

9. Countering Pseudolinguistic Claims: The Ethical Challenges Facing Forensic Linguists

Tanya Karoli Christensen and Sofia Navarro Beck

10. Disinformative Linguistics: Using Linguistic Science for Unethical Purposes

Timothy Habick

11. Ethics and Linguistic Practice of Dutch Police Interrogations: The Right to Silence

Martha Komter

Section II: Serving as An Expert Witness

12. Linguists and Lawyers: Ethical Challenges in An Adversary System

Robin Conley Riner and John M. Conley

13. The US American Expert Witness and the Ethics of Advocacy

Michael O’Laughlin

14. Challenging Legal Assumptions: Ethics, Due Process and Forensic Linguistic Research

Mel Greenlee

15. The Forensic Linguist’s Ethical Duty to Explain Language Use to Triers of Fact

Dakota Wing

16. The Golden Rule and the Golden Thread: The Ethics of Communicating the Criminal Standard of Proof

Chris Heffer

17. Ethical Uncertainties and Inconsistencies in Diminished Responsibility Rulings: The Case for Fictionalism

Felicity Deamer and Sam Wilkinson

18. Tightening the Rein on Expert Evidence: Ethical Reasons for Judicial Gatekeeping in the Canadian Context and Implications for Forensic Linguistics

Jennifer Glougie

19. Ethical Expert Practice: Engaging with Everyday Linguistic Harms

Kelly Elizabeth Wright

20. A Critical Evaluation of the Legal System in England and Wales for Sex Abuse Crimes Involving Adult Witnesses with an Intellectual Disability: Deliberations on Special Measures

Michelle Aldridge and Tina Pereira

21. The Problematic Nature of L1 and Translation in US Criminal Courts: Access, Ethics and Errors

Mel Greenlee

Section III: Researching, Teaching, Publishing, and Providing for the Next Generation

22. Too Close to Home?: A Dialogue on the Ethics of Forensic Linguists' Proximity to their Data

Grace Sullivan Buker

23. Navigating Legality, Linguistic rights, and Social Justice in Linguistic Research with Deaf Refugees

Nina Sivunen and Johanna Ennser-Kananen

24. Ethical Research Practices with Highly Stigmatized Populations: Engaging with Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses

Stina Lindegren

25. Ethical Considerations of Working with Political Extremist Threat Communications

I.M. Nick and Ulrike Preiss

26. Ethical Considerations in Corpus-based Legal Interpretation Analysis

Brett Hashimoto and Derek Haderlie

27. Get Your Hands Off My Idiolect! A Spectrum Model of Misuse of Idiolectal Information as a Heuristic Tool

Peter S. Harrison and Dominic Watt

28. Analyzing the Language of Non-Human Animals: Why Should Forensic Linguists Care?

Meike M. de Boer

29. “So this is how you can manipulate witnesses!”: Ethical considerations in the teaching and dissemination of research in forensic linguistics

Karoline Marko

30. Teaching Sensitive Topics in Forensic Linguistics: Ethical Implications for Students and Lecturers

Samuel Larner

31. Welcome Forensic Linguists!: Ethical Forensic Linguistics Pedagogy and Classroom Practice

Christine Jacknick and M. Peregrine Balmat

32. Ethics and Publishing in Forensic Linguistics: Policing Credibility

Sarah Frances Gordon and Bernardo Turnbull Plaza

33. Diversity in Forensic Linguistics: A Call To Fulfill the Promise

I. M. Nick

34.  Concluding Thoughts

I. M. Nick

Index

Biography

I. M. Nick holds a PhD (English Linguistics); an MA (German Linguistics); a MSc (Forensic Psychology); and the German “Habilitation”. Former Chair of the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, she’s President of the Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics. Her forensic linguistic research investigates criminal aliases, the Holocaust, threat communications, and suicide.

Kirsty E. Blewitt is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University (UK). Her multimodal linguistic research focuses on language use in courtroom interactions, the police utilization of language, and survivor narratives in domestic violence and abuse cases.