CJ595 Communications in Law Enforcement
The course is about language evidence, not the more commonly known physical evidence such as DNA, fingerprints, or hair and fiber analysis. The areas of linguistics and communications have provided a powerful framework for law enforcement; there is no field of study that is broader or has more relationships with the rest of human existence since language is involved in virtually all of human activity. In much of life, the ability to make a good impression can be very useful. Unfortunately, there are also ways that some people can use language to create the impression that our words mean something that we really didn't intend. This course is focused toward forensic linguists, discourse analysts, criminologists, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges. It is the major intention of this course to show how powerful conversational strategies are used by law enforcement.
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