The Language of Sexual Misconduct Cases

Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and author of The Language of Perjury Cases, The Language of Defamation Cases, Linguistics in the Courtroom, and Creating Language Crimes.

1. Introduction ; 2. A brief overview of sexual misconduct law and prosecution ; Section I Sexual misconduct in the workplace ; 3. Fighting off a quid pro quo proposition ; 4. A patient confuses her doctor ; 5. The sheriff who didn't know what hit him ; 6. Even senators get in trouble sometimes ; Section II Sexual misconduct of an adult with a child ; 7. One nightmare leads to another ; 8. Big trouble at a birthday party ; 9. Remembering sexual misconduct ; 10. On climbing into the wrong bed ; Section III Sexual misconduct of an adult with another adult ; 11. A dinner date that went very wrong ; 12. Unintended but still wanted sex ; 13. A prostitution sting operation ; Section IV Prosecution and defense tools ; 14. Prosecutorial problems in gathering and analyzing evidence ; 15. Using linguistic tools in sexual misconduct cases ; References