The Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Pre-Crime Narratives

by Emily Powell

Bringing together scholarship from corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, and criminology, this book offers a nuanced exploration of moral agency in the pre-crime narratives of offenders written before they commit crimes.

The volume seeks to complement existing literature in forensic linguistics, which often explore criminal narratives elicited after the crime with the benefit of hindsight, by examining texts written in the midst of events...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032639954
• ISBN13: 9781032639956
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages