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Series Preface
The Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing, and the Law publishes both single and multi-authored monographs and edited reviews of emerging areas of contemporary research. The purpose of this series is not merely to present research findings in a clear and readable form, but also to bring out their implications for both practice and policy. Books in this series are designed not only for psychologists, but also for all those involved in crime detection and prevention, child protection, policing, and judicial processes.
As the editors of Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework remind us, issues around the authorship and identity of written and spoken words reach back to Biblical times — the origins of the term ‘shibboleth’— through the true author(s) of Shakespeare’s plays and more recently, the musings of Sherlock Holmes and other fictional detectives. In our current century, these matters have assumed a new significance, where the validity and identity of electronic messaging and voice mail is, for many of us a daily challenge, while academics and students routinely employ the ‘Turnitin’ program to detect and prevent plagiarism.
An earlier volume in the Wiley Series had included some significant contributions on these themes (Oxburgh, Myklebust, Grant, & Milne, 2016), but this is the first book to be devoted entirely to forensic linguistics: an emerging science which combines the insights of psychology and linguistics in new and creative ways. Throughout its development, it has sought to combine theory with application and as the new book illustrates, its progenitors have found themselves caught up in major investigations both in the civil and criminal matters. One early high-profile case concerned the hunt for the serial killer known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’. In 1979, the police received a taped message, purportedly from the perpetrator, ridiculing their faltering investigations to date. The tape was passed to linguists at Leeds University who were asked to comment on the accent of the speaker. Their analysis of