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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra): Netflix and Chan
 ge?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confessions in the Age of “True Crim
 e” 
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's Work\, Leisure\, Culture stran
 d.\n\nTammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will deliver a public lecture 
 entitled 'Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confession
 s in the Age of “True Crime”.\n\nThis talk will highlight the cultural r
 ole played by popular television shows that have affected the applied ac
 ademic work we do as forensic linguists. In this talk\, I will first int
 roduce the “CSI Effect” (i.e.\, the knowledge “learned” by the lay publi
 c about forensic science methods and data through popular television pro
 grams such as “CSI” and “Law and Order”) and then outline how this effec
 t has influenced juries’ expectations of and conclusions about evidence 
 in criminal cases (Thomas 2006\; Huey\, 2010). Second\, we will explore 
 the actual scientific linguistic concepts used by forensic linguists (e.
 g.\, sociolinguistic variation (e.g.\, Schilling\, 2006) and register va
 riation (e.g.\, Biber et al.\, 1999))\, especially as they relate to the
  social justice issue of false confessions. We will then examine the lin
 guistic evidence in a recent false confession case that we analyzed as p
 art of the Hofstra University Capital Case Innocence Project\, wherein t
 he claim was that the suspect’s disputed confession statement had been m
 emorialized in writing by the interrogator as his “verbatim” language. F
 inally\, we will briefly revisit the notion of the “CSI Effect” in light
  of some of the new “true crime” series produced\, in much part by Netfl
 ix\, that may be starting to educate the general public about the pervas
 ive problem of false confessions within our criminal justice systems.\n\
 nTammy Gales is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Director o
 f Research at the Institute for Forensic Linguistics\, Threat Assessment
 \, and Strategic Analysis at Hofstra University\, New York. Her primary 
 research uses corpus and discourse analytic methods to examine authorial
  stance in threatening communications and other forensic contexts. She h
 as trained law enforcement agents from agencies across Canada and the U.
 S. and applied her work to criminal and civil cases for both prosecution
  and defense.
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LOCATION:SG.16\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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