Forensic Authorship Analysis and the World Wide Web
ISBN: 9781137413758
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Education;

Implementing a novel method for identifying idiolectal co-selections, and taking the UNABOM investigation as a case study, this Pivot evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of using the web for forensic purposes.


Samuel Larner is a Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His research interests are primarily in forensic linguistics, specifically authorship analysis and deception detection. Samuel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in linguistics, contributing in particular to an innovative and interdisciplinary MSc in Emotions, Credibility and Deception.
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