October 17, 2025Open Access

Electronic crimes from a forensic linguistic point of view

Key Points

Forensic linguistics significantly enhances the investigation of cybercrime through textual evidence collection.
Research indicates that most online abuses occur through textual communication, necessitating forensic linguist involvement.
The evolving nature of electronic media continues to create new challenges and opportunities for forensic linguistics.
Forensic linguists are increasingly involved in analyzing evidence from various platforms, from text messages to tweets.

Abstract

Cybercrime relies heavily on textual communication; in fact, “most forms of online abuse occur textually”, The growth and popularity of electronic and social media means that there are now many new opportunities for collecting evidence or data, benefiting both investigators and forensic linguists Forensic linguists work with emerging technologies from cases involving text messages to more recent cases involving tweets and forum posts. It would be impossible to cover all the areas in which forensic linguistics can contribute to the investigation of cybercrime; this is partly because both fields are constantly evolving

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Huda Salah Rasheed (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f19f24de32064e504ddfe9 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31918/twejer.eli24.07

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