Signs of Crime - Introducing Forensic Semiotics

This book will introduce the field of forensic semiotics as a tool for understanding crime and criminality. It will focus on how symbolism, ritual, and other sign-based activities play a crucial role in the constitution of criminal organizations and often in the enactment of individual crimes. It will present semiotic notions, methods, and techniques that can be applied to forensic science, such as the role of ritual and slang in criminal gangs.

About the author

Marcel Danesi is the author of many books on semiotic topics. He is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistics at the University of Toronto and Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory. Danesi has also been cross-appointed as a professor of education, having established a continuing studies mathematics program for students with difficulties in this subject.

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Danesi
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2013
• EAN: 9781614515524
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-552-4
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Series: Mouton Textbook; Mouton Textbook
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures