John Olsson was a lecturer in Forensic Linguistics in both the School of Linguistics and the School of Law at Bangor University, Wales, and was head of the Forensic Linguistics Institute. Additionally, he taught forensic linguistics online.June Luchjenbroers is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales.

[A]n extremely useful book for students and practitioners in a broad range of fields ... [including] law students, practising lawyers, students of applied linguistics, criminologists [and] police officers ... One of the strengths of the book is that real-life legal cases are referred to when illustrating theoretical points ... [A]n informative and accessible text.

• Introduction.Part I: Language as Forensic Evidence1. The road to authorship2. The author constructed3. Time, variation and genre4. Range of variation5. Textual Variation6. Forensic phonetics7. CybercrimePart Two: Dealing with linguistic Evidence 8. Forensic texts9. Forensic transcription10. Forensic authorship in practice11. Investigating author variation in naturalistic data12. Forensic linguistic evidence in courtPart Three: The legal process: Language and the law 13. Power in legal contexts: The courts14. Power in legal contexts: The police15. Vulnerable witnessesPart Four: Language of the law16. The law and us17. The language of statutesAppendix 1: Forensic textsAppendix 2: Exercises and exercise commentariesAppendix 3: Active researchers in the field of the forensic linguisticsBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index