Certainly, an incarceration, simple arrest, questioning, or data gathering on individuals such as wire taps would produce a plethora of data that could be used the statistical analysis of potential, real, or existing threats. Some individuals are under surveillance or incarceration for extended periods of time (such as gang leaders, Mafiosi, etc.) and would provide a huge quantity of analyzable data that could be fed to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCVAC) at Quantico, Virginia. Such data storage and analysis facilities feed data to law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. The Bureau is a major researcher into and user of psycholinguistic analysis and products. While much of law enforcement's criminal investigative analysis was designed for and works best in investigations of serial criminal acts (rapes, homicides, or arsons), a more systematic and scientific methodology of data analysis would allow more specific profiling in the case of individual crime (Smith & Shuy, 2002, p.p. 16-17).
In this milieu, threat simulation theory, options theory, lexical features, phonological features and syntactic features all play a part in the when sociolinguistic features such as geographic origins, ethnicity or race, age, sex, occupation, education level and religious orientation are analyzed. Individual psycholinguistics provides narrower categories where our above theoretical categories can be applied in areas such as threat assessment, authorship identification, false allegations and threats, workplace violence, statement analysis and homicides disguised as suicides. All of this is culled from the analysis of the offender's actual language which will answer our above research questions (ibid, pp. 17-20).
Lexical features can also be analyzed to predict threatening behavior in speech. For instance, it has been found that...
Likewise, Grenfell and Harris report that some studies have suggested that language is acquired through a universal natural order wherein language acquisition follows an identifiable sequence in the stages through which learners pass to achieve competence. According to Levy and Schaeffer (2003), though, "It is a truism of research in developmental psycholinguistics that children's behavior looks quite different in different languages. Of course, it is expected that different developing languages
One of the strategies used by psycholinguists is focusing on sentence construction. This is also called statement analysis. This is where potential suspects are interviewed and their language use during the interview is later analyzed using a technique to see if they had been less than truthful. (Adams, 1996) Workplace violence is another area which can get enormous help from the use of psycholinguists. Law enforcement officers often ask colleagues of
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