THE LANGUAGE OF OFFENDERS

Linguistic Approaches to Criminal Identity and Criminal Discourse

von Wesam Mohamed Abdelkhalek Ibrahim

432 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Language of Offenders explores how language shapes the understanding of crime, offenders, victims, and justice. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and narrative criminology, the book argues that crime is not only a legal or social phenomenon but also a linguistic one. It examines how offenders are constructed through media reports, legal discourse, social media, literature, and institutional communication, revealing how language influences perceptions of guilt, responsibility, identity, and power. The book investigates the role of discourse in labeling, stigmatization, social control, offender self-presentation, and victim narratives. Through analyses of criminal justice systems, courtroom language, news reporting, offender narratives, and digital communication, it demonstrates how linguistic choices reflect and reproduce social ideologies. The work also addresses practical applications in forensic linguistics, authorship attribution, offender profiling, and emerging challenges such as AI-generated crime discourse and online criminal communication.

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke
• ISBN: 9786630154375
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2026
• Größe: 220 x 150 mm
• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing