TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Elisabeth
TI  - The language of romance crimes: interactions of love, money, and threat 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics,
SN  - 9781009273008 (ebook)
AV  - HV6691 .C38 2024
U1  - 364.163 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Fraud
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Forensic linguistics
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Online dating
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Mar 2024); Open Access
N2  - Exploring the interplay of love, money and threat in romance fraud, this Element reveals how language is used to persuade, manipulate, and threaten without causing alarm. It provides the first empirical examination of criminal interactions-in-action that exposes and tracks the grooming process and manipulation techniques from first contact with the fraudster, to the transition between romance and finance, and requests for money and intimate images, before morphing into explicit threats and acts of sextortion. Through the use of a range of interactional methodologies and real romance fraud messages, a new type of criminality in the form of 'romance fraud enabled sextortion' is revealed. The insights contained in this work have clear implications for future directions of academic exploration and practitioner efforts to protect the public. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273008
ER  -