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Did you know that 6 out of 10 people will be victims of crime in their lifetimes? What if the next victim of crime was you or a loved one? Wouldn’t you want your case solved as fast as possible?
Hello! My name is Carrie, and I want to investigate for you!
Imagine if you found an anonymous online post from a mysterious person who said he’s going to put a bomb in the park near your house. Or if you found a ransom note in a hotel with no one around. What do you do?
In a new field called Forensic Linguistics, you give these pieces of language to a linguist—that’s me—and I could tell you where the author’s from, about how old he/she is, what first language he or she speaks, and much more.
It’s like all the crime shows, only better—because it’s real life. Criminal linguists take people’s language and use it to track them down. Whether it’s a terrorist, a cybercriminal, a hacker, a kidnapper, or a bomber, we can use language to pinpoint them and then bring them in. And that means saving people’s lives.
These crimes are happening everywhere, every day. In your neighborhood. In your state, or your country, or maybe even right in your own home. When a member of the family goes missing, or when someone hacks the bank you use, what happens if there’s no one there who can track down the culprit?
Then there’s me. I don’t claim to be able to solve the world’s problems, but I DO think we need to be doing something! The thousand-mile journey starts with a single step, right? I’m a linguist, and I’ve got a goal: to expand the field of forensic linguistics so that its powerful crime-solving strategies are more available than ever before.
Right now, forensic linguistic resources are pretty limited, because no one has really heard of the field. But that person who tracked down the Unabomber? He used forensic linguistics. Who solved the Lindbergh kidnapping? There it is again! It works. But it’s got to grow. We’ve got to help a lot more people.
What I’m asking for is this—the funds to grow the field of forensic linguistics. My particular interest is in developing tools for law enforcement so that more people can perform these analyses. I want to incorporate my research with corpus linguistics into the field of crime by creating computer programs that work alongside humans to analyze the language of crime.
What does that mean?
1. Crimes get solved faster.
2. Previously unsolvable crimes end with the correct suspect.
3. Criminals have fewer places to hide.
I'm doing what I can. But I can't do this alone. I sincerely appreciate anything you are willing to share to ensure that I can be ‘on the case’ when you and others need me.
Your donations will go straight to my research at Aston University, the world’s top resource for forensic linguistics in Birmingham, UK.
Hello! My name is Carrie, and I want to investigate for you!
Imagine if you found an anonymous online post from a mysterious person who said he’s going to put a bomb in the park near your house. Or if you found a ransom note in a hotel with no one around. What do you do?
In a new field called Forensic Linguistics, you give these pieces of language to a linguist—that’s me—and I could tell you where the author’s from, about how old he/she is, what first language he or she speaks, and much more.
It’s like all the crime shows, only better—because it’s real life. Criminal linguists take people’s language and use it to track them down. Whether it’s a terrorist, a cybercriminal, a hacker, a kidnapper, or a bomber, we can use language to pinpoint them and then bring them in. And that means saving people’s lives.
These crimes are happening everywhere, every day. In your neighborhood. In your state, or your country, or maybe even right in your own home. When a member of the family goes missing, or when someone hacks the bank you use, what happens if there’s no one there who can track down the culprit?
Then there’s me. I don’t claim to be able to solve the world’s problems, but I DO think we need to be doing something! The thousand-mile journey starts with a single step, right? I’m a linguist, and I’ve got a goal: to expand the field of forensic linguistics so that its powerful crime-solving strategies are more available than ever before.
Right now, forensic linguistic resources are pretty limited, because no one has really heard of the field. But that person who tracked down the Unabomber? He used forensic linguistics. Who solved the Lindbergh kidnapping? There it is again! It works. But it’s got to grow. We’ve got to help a lot more people.
What I’m asking for is this—the funds to grow the field of forensic linguistics. My particular interest is in developing tools for law enforcement so that more people can perform these analyses. I want to incorporate my research with corpus linguistics into the field of crime by creating computer programs that work alongside humans to analyze the language of crime.
What does that mean?
1. Crimes get solved faster.
2. Previously unsolvable crimes end with the correct suspect.
3. Criminals have fewer places to hide.
I'm doing what I can. But I can't do this alone. I sincerely appreciate anything you are willing to share to ensure that I can be ‘on the case’ when you and others need me.
Your donations will go straight to my research at Aston University, the world’s top resource for forensic linguistics in Birmingham, UK.
Organizer
Carrie Ott
Organizer
Meadville, PA
