Forensic Linguistics Courses

Detecting authorship of mobile phone texts

NEW Detecting authorship of mobile phone texts

With the dramatic increase in e-crime, investigators will find this new course on how to detect authorship of mobile phone texts (SMS texts) invaluable in solving crime and gaining intelligence. In the UK there have been a number of high profile cases where cell phone text authorship evidence has proved crucial in obtaining convictions.

This course begins by showing you how to detect features, then how to test texts for consistency and finally how to determine whether texts are distinctive. The course comes with corpus software to test for frequencies of use - this is absolutely unique to the Forensic Linguistics Institute and is a very valuable aid to assessing significance of findings.

This is an accredited course.

Further information on Detecting authorship of mobile phone texts

This is a hands-on authorship course which will teach you how to detect authorship of mobile phone texts. It is exclusive to the Forensic Linguistics Institute. The course consists of three Units. Unit 1 introduces you to features found in mobile phone texts and shows you how to observe them. The second Unit teaches how to look for consistency of features, and how to prepare consistency tables. The third Unit shows the student how to determine whether a finding is significant, by testing for distinctiveness. The course includes corpus software which will prove invaluable in assessing significance of authorship findings. This course is a valuable intelligence tool in the fight against e-crime.

Cost of course: £125.00

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