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The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

Author: I.M. Nick; Kirsty E. Blewitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032488424
Published In: January 2026
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics Ethics 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 thirty 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 researchers and practitioners navigating the ethical challenges of forensic language work.

This authoritative resource is essential reading for scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, law and language, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies.

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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 Beck Navarro

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 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 Wright

20. A Critical Evaluation of the Legal System in England and Wales for Sex Abuse Crimes Involving Adult Witnesses with an Intellectual Disability (AWID): 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?: Exploring Analysts’ Proximity to their Data

Grace Buker-Sullivan

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