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[email protected]. BOOK REVIEW THE PROMISE AND SHORTCOMINGS OF FORENSIC LINGUISTICS Tom Liningert CREATING LANGUAGE CRIMES: How LAW ENFORCEMENT USES (AND MISUSES) LANGUAGE. By Roger W Shuy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 185. $29.95. INTRODUCTION When many people think of expert testimony in the criminal jus- tice system, they imagine testimony involving the forensic techniques employed by the fictional investigators on the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.I In a high-profile case, jurors expect to hear about DNA testing, ballistics analysis, fingerprint matching, handwrit- ing comparisons, and autopsies.2 Indeed, jurors have developed a 3 near reverence for such expert testimony in criminal trials. Professor Roger Shuy would add a new category of forensic ex- pertise to the pantheon: linguistics. In his latest book, Creating Lan- guage Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language, Professor Shuy points out that police, either by themselves or through their cooperating witnesses, have been known to manipulate language t Assistant Professor, University of Oregon School of Law.