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Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Court Room (Language Library)
Language Crimes The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Court Room - Language Library
Author: Roger W. Shuy
Solicitation to murder, bribery, threatening, extortion, perjury - all these are criminal acts whose medium is language. Since the 1970s American law enforcement agencies have been covertly tape recording conversations to bring such crimes to justice. With increasing frequency the decision of the court has come to turn on this taped evidence -...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780631186182
ISBN-10: 0631186182
Publication Date: 2/1993
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Book Type: Hardcover
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