Research

Editorial

Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics co-edited with Dr Tammy Gales of Hofstra University.

Works Submitted and In Press

(Nov 2024)

Clarke, I, & Grant, T (submitted 2024) Impostors tending towards the wild: Purposes of authorship analysis and a specific impostors method in the Karvounakis terrorism case Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito

Petyko, M., Busso, L., Atkins, S., Grant, T., Chiang, E., & Basu, N., (submitted  2024) “This is an extortion note”: A rhetorical move analysis of discourse structure and genre in commercial extortion communications” Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito

Hunter, M., & Grant, T. (submitted 2024) Is LIWC reliable, efficient, and effective for the analysis of large online datasets in forensic and security contexts? Applied Corpus Linguistics 

Voice, M., Harrison, C., Grant, T., Giovanelli, M.  (submitted 2024) Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus Language and Literature

Boucher, A.,  Grant, T., Jenkin-Smith, D. and Powell, E. (submitted 2024)  Crime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the PublicPalgave MacMillan

Books and monographs

Grant, T. (2022) The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis [**Free to download**] (Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics) Cambridge University Press.

Grant, T. and MacLeod, N. (2020) Language and Online Identities: The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

Grant, T., Clark, U., Reershemius, G., Pollard, D., Hayes, S., Plappert, G. (2017) Quantitative Research Methods for Linguists. A questions and answers approach for students.  Routledge

Oxburgh, G.E., Myklebust, T., Grant, T. & Milne, R. (Eds) (2015) Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Bull, R., Cooke, C. A., Hatcher, R., Woodhams, J., & Grant, T. D. (2006). Criminal Psychology: A Beginners Guide. London: One World Publications.

Journal articles

Forthcoming

Petyko, M., Busso, L. Grant, T. & Atkins, S. (2022 – in press) The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito.

Published

Newsome, H. & Grant T. (2023) Developing a Resource Model of Power and Authority in Anonymous Online Criminal Interactions Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito 10 (1) 110-130

Petyko, M., Busso, L., Grant, T., Atkins, S. (2022) The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito 9 (1), 9-24

Hunter, M., Grant, T.  Killer stance: An investigation of the relationship between attitudinal resources and psychological traits in the writings of four serial murderers Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito 9 (1) 48-72

Busso, L., Petyko, M., Atkins, S., & Grant, T. (2022). Operation Heron–Latent topic changes in an abusive letter series. Corpora, 17, 2.

Morrison, G. S., Neumann, C., Geoghegan, P. H., Edmond, G., Grant, T., Ostrum, R. B., Roberts, P., Saks, M., Syndercombe Court, D., Thompson, W. C. & Zabell, S. (2021). Reply to Response to Vacuous standards–subversion of the OSAC standards-development process. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 100149.

Kredens, K., Perkins, R., and Grant, T. (2019) Developing a framework for the explanation of interlingual features for native and other language influence detection. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito 6, 2, 10-23

Kloess, J. A., Woodhams, J., Whittle, H., Grant, T., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. E. (2019). The Challenges of Identifying and Classifying Child Sexual Abuse Material. Sexual Abuse, 31(2), 173–196.

Hurt, M. & Grant T (2019) Pledging to harm: a linguistic appraisal analysis of judgement comparing realized and non-realized violent fantasies Discourse and Society 30(2) 

Chiang, E & Grant, TD (2019) ‘Deceptive identity performance: Offender moves and multiple personas in online child abuse conversations‘ Applied Linguistics. 40(4) 675-698. DOI:10.1093/applin/amy007

Schneevogt, D, Chiang, E & Grant, TD (2018) Do Perverted Justice chat logs contain examples of Overt Persuasion and Sexual Extortion?: A research note responding to Chiang and Grant 2017 and 2018. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 5, 1, 89-94.

Grant, TD & MacLeod, N (2018) Resources and constraints in linguistic identity performance: a theory of authorship Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito.

Perkins, RC & Grant, TD 2018, ‘Native Language Influence Detection for Forensic Authorship Analysis: Identifying L1 Persian Bloggers.‘ International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Chiang, E. & Grant, T. (2017). Online grooming: moves and strategies. Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito, 4.1.

Grant, T. (2017). Duppying yoots in a dog eat dog world, kmt. Determining the senses of slang terms for the Courts Semiotica.

MacLeod, N. & Grant, T. (2016). “You have ruined this entire experiment … shall we stop talking now?” Orientations to the experimental setting as an interactional resource. Discourse, Context & Media, 14, 63-70.

Grant, T. & Macleod, N. (2016). Assuming Identities Online: Experimental Linguistics Applied to the Policing of Online Paedophile Activity. Applied linguistics, 37(1), 50-70. 

Nini, A. & Grant, T. (2013). Bridging the gap between stylistic and cognitive approaches to authorship analysis using Systemic Functional Linguistics and multidimensional analysis. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law,  20(2), 173-202.

Grant, T. (2013). TXT4N6: Method, consistency and distinctiveness in the forensic authorship analysis of text messages. Journal of law and policy, 21, 468-494.

O’Mahony, B. M., Milne, B. & Grant, T. (2012). To challenge, or not to challenge? Best practice when interviewing vulnerable suspects. Policing, 6(3), 301-313.

Oxburgh, G.E., Myklebust, T. & Grant, T. (2010). The question of question types in police interviews: a review of the literature from a psychological and linguistic perspective.  The International Journal of Speech Language and Law ,17(1), 45-66 doi:10.1558/ijsll.v17i1.45.

Hammond, J. C., Bond, J. W. & Grant, T. (2009). The Effects of Substance Use on Offender Crime Scene Behavior. Journal of Forensic Science, 54(2), 376-381.

Norton, R. & Grant, T. (2008). Rape myth in true and false allegations of rape. Psychology Crime and Law, 13(3), 1-30.

Tonkin, M., Grant, T. & Bond, J. W. (2008). To Link or Not to Link: A Test of the Case Linkage Principles Using Serial Car Theft Data. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 5(1-2), 58-77.

Woodhams, J., Grant, T. D. & Price, A. R. G. (2007). From marine ecology to crime analysis: Improving the detection of serial sexual offences using a taxonomic similarity measure. The Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 4, 17-27.

Grant, T. (2007). Quantifying evidence for forensic authorship analysis Speech Language and the Law. The International Journal of Forensic Linguistics, 14(1).  

Sheridan, L. P. & Grant, T. (2007). Is cyberstalking different? Psychology, Crime & Law, 13(6), 627-640.

Westerberg, K., Grant, T. & Bond, J. W. (2007). Triangulation mobility of auto-theft offenders. Journal of Investigative psychology and offender Profiling, 4, 109-120.

Woodhams, J., Gillett, R. & Grant, T. D. (2007). Understanding the factors that affect the severity of juvenile stranger sex offenses. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22(2), 218-237.

Woodhams, J. & Grant, T. D. (2006). Developing a categorisation system for rapists’ speech. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 12(3), 245-260.

Boyd, E. & Grant, T. D. (2005). Is gender a factor in perceived prison officer competence? Male prisoners. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 15(1), 65.

Grant, T.D. & Dajee, K. (2003). Types of task, types of audience, types of actor: interactions between mere presence and personality type in a simple mathematical task. Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 633-639.

Grant, T.D. & Baker, K. L. (2001). Identifying reliable, valid markers of authorship: a response to Chaski. Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 8, 66 – 79.

Book chapters

Grant, T. & Grieve (2022) The Starbuck Case: Methods for addressing confirmation bias in forensic authorship analysis Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework. Perkins, R., Picornell, I. & Coulthard, M. (eds.). Wiley

MacLeod, N., & Grant, T. (2021). Assuming Identities Online: How Linguistics Is Helping the Policing of Online Grooming and the Distribution of Abusive Images. In T. Owen and J. Marshall Rethinking Cybercrime (pp. 87-104). Palgrave Macmillan.

Oxburgh, G.E., Myklebust, T., Grant, T. & Milne, R. (2015). Communication in investigative and legal settings: Introduction and contexts. In G.E. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, T. Grant & R. Milne (Eds), Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Grant, T., Taylor, J., Oxburgh, G. E. & Myklebust, T. (2015). Exploring types and functions of questions in police interviews. In G.E. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, T. Grant & R. Milne (Eds), Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Ost, J., Scoboria, A., Grant, T. & Pankhurst, G. (2015). Recall, Verbatim memory and remembered narratives. In G.E. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, T. Grant & R. Milne (Eds), Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Oxburgh, G.E., Myklebust, T., Grant, T. & Milne, R. (2015). Communication in forensic contexts: Future directions and conclusions. In G.E. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, T. Grant, and R. Milne (Eds), Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Grant, T. & Spaul, K. (2015). Felicitous Consent. In L. Solan, J. Ainsworth & R. Shuy Speaking of Language and Law. Oxford: OUP.

Coulthard, R. M., Grant, T. D. & Kredens, K. (2010). Forensic linguistics. In Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage.

Grant, T. (2010). TXT 4N6: Idiolect free authorship analysis? In M. Coulthard & A. Johnson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. London: Routledge.

Grant, T. D. (2008). Approaching questions in forensic authorship analysis. In J. Gibbons & M. T. Turell (Eds.), Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Grant, T. D. (2006). Forensic linguistics. In R. Bull (Ed.), Beginners guide to forensic psychology. London: One World Publications.

Grant, T. D. & Woodhams, J. (2007). Rape as social interaction: An application of investigative linguistics. In J. Cotterill (Ed.), The Language of Sexual Crimes. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

Grant, T. D. (2006). Identifying the origins of evidential texts. In A. Heaton-Armstrong, E. Shepherd, G. H. Gudjonsson & D. Wolchover (Eds.), Witness Testimony Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives. Oxford: OUP.