[Corpora-List] Corpora of transcribed criminal interrogations and/or of trials in court

[Alexandra Werner]

To whom it may concern,
I am a French student in English linguistics and I would like to start a PhD
on "The Manipulation of Language in the Criminal Arena." I am interested in
looking at how people who are interrogated or prosecuted are influenced by
the way the questions asked to them are phrased, how the phrasing may alter
their memory, etc.
I would therefore need transcripts of police questionings and was wondering
whether such corpora already existed.
I am aware of the difficulty in getting hold of such data or in constituting
my own corpora because of the inaccessibility of prisons. I was thus also
thinking about shifting my area of research into trials in courts, and was
wondering whether someone had already worked on transcripts of court
hearings, or if there was an accessible database somewhere (like archives).
Thank you in advance for your answer.
Best regards,
Alexandra Werner
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