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MarcelDanesi SignsofCrime Marcel Danesi Signs of Crime Introducing Forensic Semiotics ISBN978-1-61451-552-4 e-ISBN978-1-61451-316-2 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. 62014WalterdeGruyter,Inc.,Boston/Berlin Typesetting:RoyalStandard,HongKong Printingandbinding:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen ♾ Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following research assistants at the University of Toronto for helping me gather the relevant information for this book and for providing me with their own insights and astute observations: Stacy Costa, Lydia Bojeczko, Sophia Chadwick, Stephanie Turenko, Mariana Bockarova, Lorraine Bryers, Patrick Kelly, Christopher Mastropietro, and Siobhan Maclean. I also wish to express my gratitude to the Principal of Victoria College, Angela Esterhammer,forgivingmetheopportunitytodevelopanundergraduatecourse inforensicsemioticsthatIteachatthecollegeandMaureenPeng,theAcademic Administrator, for allowing me to set up a research center at the college (Research in Forensic Semiotics) and for all her support and encouragement in myendeavors. Table of contents Acknowledgments v ListofFiguresandTables ix Introduction 1 1 ForensicsandSemiotics 4 1.1 ForensicScience 5 1.2 Branches 11 1.3 Semiotics 14 1.4 ForensicSemiotics 25 2 SignsofDeception 30 2.1 LieDetection 31 2.2 TheFace,theEyes,andtheHead 39 2.3 BodyLanguage 43 2.4 First-OrderForensicSemiotics 49 3 SignsofIdentity 52 3.1 Prints 53 3.2 OtherTypesofEvidence 60 3.3 AnalyzingtheEvidence 64 3.4 InferringtheCriminal’sIdentity 68 4 TheLanguageofCrime 72 4.1 ForensicLinguistics 73 4.2 Handwriting,Content,andStyle 78 4.3 CriminalSpeech 89 4.4 MetaphorAnalysis 93 5 TheCriminalMind 98 5.1 ForensicPsychology 99 5.2 CriminalProfiling 104 5.3 InsidetheCriminalMind 105 5.4 TheSerialKiller 110 6 SymbolsandRitualsofCrime 119 6.1 CrimeSceneInvestigations 120 6.2 Symbolism 123 6.3 Ritual 129 6.4 ThinkingLikeSherlockHolmes 135 viii Tableofcontents 7 CriminalityandItsRepresentations 138 7.1 FictionalandRealCrime 139 7.2 CrimeontheScreen 144 7.3 TheSimulacrumEffect 148 7.4 ObjectivesofSecond-OrderForensicSemiotics 151 Conclusion 153 Glossary 155 References 165 Index 171 List of Figures and Tables Figure1. Partsofafingerprint Figure2. TheDNA Figure3. Bloodspatteranalysis Figure4. Elementsofthesemeion Figure5. Saussure’sbinarymodelofthesign Figure6. Peirceanmodelofthesign Figure7. Thepolygraph Figure8. Basicemotions Figure9. Fingerprintpatterns Figure10. CODIS Figure11. Voiceprint Figure12. SonofSamnote Figure13. SonofSamletter Figure14. Zodiacletter Figure15. AcrypticmessagefromtheZodiac Figure16. JonBenetRamseyransomnote Figure17. AnotherSonofSamletter Table1. ThecomponentsoftheAutonomicNervousSystem Table2. Eyecontactpatterns Table3. Personalitytypology Table4. MetaphorAnalysis

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