37.2622, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Names, Crime, and the Law

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Subject: 37.2622, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Names, Crime, and the Law

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Date: 07-Aug-2026
From: Dr. I. M. Nick [nameseditor at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Names, Crime, and the Law


A Call for Book Chapter Proposals on Names, Crime, and the Law
One of the most fascinating areas of interdisciplinary research
involving onomastics,  criminology, and the law is forensic
onomastics. The current call for book chapter proposals is for an
upcoming publication in the Bloomsbury book series, “Names and Naming
in the Social Sciences and Humanities”.   Possible topics of interest
include but are not limited to the following:
1.) Names of crimes, criminals, victims, and/or law enforcement
agencies
2.) Crimes involving the illegal use of names (e.g. identity theft,
trademark infringement, verbal threats involving malicious
name-calling; the use of names to identify potential crime victims)
3.) The names of laws and policies at any level of governance.
4.) Laws and policies governing the use or alteration of names
5.) Strategies for the translation or transliteration of names in
forensic contexts
6.) Clandestine names used by criminals to describe themselves, their
products, their organizations, their activities, and/or their targets
7.) The ways in which the media uses names to report on crimes or
criminals
8.) Official strategies and/or policies used by law enforcement to
analyze, process, or store onomastic data relevant in criminal
investigations
9.) Legal disputes fought over names (e.g., the right to use a product
name; lawsuits over potentially pejorative names)
10.) The ways in which names may be used during the commission of a
crime (e.g., name-calling in threat communications or cases of
defamation; the use of harmful names to demean or control victims; the
use of names in cases of identity theft)
11.) The literary use of names in (true)  crime fiction.
Proposals examining any name type are welcome.  Although all proposals
must be written in English, the papers proposed may involve any
language(s), spoken, written, or signed.  Both diachronic and
synchronic approaches are welcome. Investigations may employ
qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods.  However, the analysis
proposed must be clearly on focused on the onomastic data.  Proposals
will be judged upon their thematic fit as well as their  potential to
make a substantive contribution to both forensic linguistics and
onomastics.  All Interested authors are asked to submit their formal
proposals using the following guidelines.
Proposal Submission Process
1.) Abstract proposals (max. 500 words, excluding the title and
references) should be sent as a word doc email attachment to the
Editor-in-Chief of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics, Professor I. M.
Nick (nameseditor at gmail.com)
2.) For organizational purposes, proposals must include “FORENSICS” in
the subject line of the email
3.) All proposals must include an abstract, title, and a preliminary
list of references;
4.) The full name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s) must
appear in the body of the email. These details should NOT appear in
the attached proposal.
5.) In the case of multi-authored submissions, one person must be
clearly designated as the primary contact.
The DEADLINE for proposal submissions is October 15, 2026. All
proposals will be submitted to a double-blind review process. Authors
will be notified about acceptance on or by November 15, 2026 Final
chapters (max 7,000 words, excluding abstracts, graphics, and
references) will be due March 15, 2027. For further information about
this call, please feel free to contact Professor I. M. Nick
(nameseditor at gmail.com). We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Forensic Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature




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