The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics is the first comprehensive reference work to explore the ethical dimensions of forensic language analysis across a range of applied and academic contexts.
With the use of linguistic and phonetic evidence now commonplace in legal investigations and court proceedings, questions of consent, bias, responsibility, and professional integrity have become increasingly urgent. This volume brings together over 30 original chapters by leading scholars and practitioners in forensic linguistics and speech science to critically examine these issues. Chapters span a wide range of research and practice settings, from expert testimony and investigative consultancy to academic publishing, teaching, and public engagement, addressing ethical questions across diverse linguistic and legal systems. The handbook offers both conceptual frameworks and practical guidance for navigating the ethical challenges of forensic language work.
This authoritative resource is essential reading for researchers, practitioners, and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics is the first comprehensive reference work to explore the ethical dimensions of forensic language analysis across various contexts, including the courtroom, research, education, and publishing. It establishes much-needed ethical standards for researchers and practitioners alike.
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 Experts 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 (NNS) - Margaret Van Naerssen.
7. An Intelligence Scaffold to Aid Ethical Considerations in Forensic
Linguistic Casework - Ria Perkins, James Rosie, and Sharon Glaas.
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 Expert
Witness and the Ethics of Advocacy - Michael OLaughlin.
14. Challenging
Legal Assumptions: Ethics, Due Process, and Forensic Linguistic Research -
Mel Greenlee.
15. The Forensic Linguists 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.
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 Americas Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, shes 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.
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