Voice Identification in a Criminal Law Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bethany K Dumas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 341-341 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455509 |
| OpenAlex | W2326274252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
EGAL GUILT CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY the similarity of a defendant's personal characteristics to the personal characteristics of the perpetrator of a crime. Such comparisons are often made on the basis of eyewitness testimony, and in recent years there has been a great deal of research into the psychology of eyewitness testimony (see, e.g., Loftus 1979, Komulainen 1988). Visual cues are recalled, reawakened, and reported in the medium of language, however, so it is clear that much about eyewitness testimony implicates language and language behavior. This is one reason that linguistic research has much relevance for the law of criminal procedure. In addition, voice itself may be at issue in a criminal case, inasmuch as it may itself be a personal characteristic upon which an identification of a criminal depends. It thus seems appropriate that we have in recent years seen the coining of the word earwitness for the witness who heard, rather than saw, something
Context (archaeology · Criminal law · Criminology · Identification (biology · Political science · Sociology · History · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Linguistic research and analysis
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |