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FORENSIC LINGUISTIC
DATA & RESOURCES
DATA COLLECTIONS
The data on this page contain links to corpora and to data collections that can be transformed into corpora.
There are also links to other forensic linguistic and legal language repositories.
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public corpora (e.g., the Threatening English Language (TEL) corpus)
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public data collections that can be transformed into corpora (e.g., the school shooter database)
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private collections that require permission to access (e.g., the Ted Kaczynski archive)
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data repositories (e.g., Aston University's FoLD repository)
Public Forensic Linguistic & Legal Language Corpora
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Corpus of Spoken Threats (CoST)
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Coming soon
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Malicious Forensic Text Corpus
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Approximately 100 malicious threatening texts. Metadata is included where known.
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Andrea Nini
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Corpus of Early Statutes at Large (CESAL)
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Over 470,000 words from more than 480 texts. The corpus includes early laws passed by US Congress.
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Brigham Young University
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Corpus of State Conventions on the Adoption of the Constitution (COSCAC)
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Over 1 million words from more than 650 texts. Text contain debates of several state conventions on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
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Brigham Young University
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Corpus of Supreme Court Opinions of the United States (COSCO-US)
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Over 94 million words from more than 60,000 texts from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions published through 2017.
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Brigham Young University
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Corpus of the Records of the Constitutional Convention (CORCC)
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Over 680,000 words from more than 800 texts documenting the records of the federal convention of 1787.
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Brigham Young University
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Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA)
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Over 130 million words from more than 125,000 texts spanning from 1760-1799. Documents include those "from ordinary people of the day, the Founders, and legal sources"
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Brigham Young University
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BYU-Corpus of Early Modern English (BYU-COEME)
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Over 1 billion words from more than 40,000 texts from 1475-1800. Texts are from the Evans Bibliography, the Early English Books Online, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online, among others.
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Brigham Young University
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Corpus of US Caselaw (CUSC)
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Over 4 million words from more than 8000 texts, which include published court decisions between 1760-1799.
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Brigham Young University
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Shneidman and Farberow Suicide Note Corpus
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The original data from the 1957 Shneidman and Farberow study. The data contain a matched sample of 33 authentic letters and 33 inauthentic letters.
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Shneidman, E.S., & Farberow, N.L. (1957). Clues to Suicide. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Threatening English Language (TEL) Corpus
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This collection of threatening communications is a compilation of over 300 publicly-available texts from CTARC (the Communicated Threat Assessment Research Corpus, compiled by Tammy Gales), MFC (the Malicious Forensic Texts corpus, compiled by Andrea Nini), and the written texts from CoJO (the Corpus of Judicial Opinions, compiled by Julia Muschalik). Additional threatening texts come from ForensicLing.com (the forensic linguistic data site hosted by Tammy Gales and Dakota Wing). Meta data is supplied where known from the original case research.
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Tammy Gales and Andrea Nini
Public Data Collections for Corpus Compilation
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Description
62-B District Court City of Kentwood
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This is the official YouTube Channel of the 62-B District Court in Kentwood, Michigan.
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62-B District Court City of Kentwood
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911 calls
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Audio recordings of 911 calls to the Daytona, FL police department (embedded shortly into the podcasts)
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911 Florida Raw Audio
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Description
911 calls
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Collections of 911 calls (e.g., disturbing, strange, celebrity)
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A Call for Help r/911Calls
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Civil Rights Court Documents
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A range of legal documents (e.g., motions, briefs, complaints, decisions) from cases related to civil rights.
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ACLU-PA
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Full length police interview videos
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A collection of full-length police interview videos
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Across the Table
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Police-Citizen Videos
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Videos from police body and car cams (embedded within the videos)
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Audit the Audit
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Death Row Final Statements: Notorious killers
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A collection of last words from a range of notorious killers prior to execution
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Brie Stimson, Fox News
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Death Row Final Statements: Bizarre
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A collection of bizarre last words from a range of criminals prior to execution
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BuzzFuse
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Cockpit Voice Recorder Database
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Transcripts of last words from cockpit black box recordings (1962-2019)
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CVR Database
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Canadian Court Opinions
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Searchable database of Canadian court opinions
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CanLII
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Civil Court Videos
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Videos of civil court interactions
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Caught in Providence
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Senate Judiciary Hearings
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Videos and transcripts of U.S. Senate Judiciary hearings
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Committee on the Judiciary
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Description
Criminal Words
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"Case Summaries, Interrogation Transcripts, 911 Transcripts, and More!"
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Criminal Words
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US Securities & Exchange Commission
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"EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the primary system for companies and others submitting documents under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Containing millions of company and individual filings, EDGAR benefits investors, corporations, and the U.S. economy overall by increasing the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of the securities markets. The system processes about 3,000 filings per day, serves up 3,000 terabytes of data to the public annually, and accommodates 40,000 new filers per year on average. "
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EDGAR
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Death Row Final Statements: California
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Last words of the 13 men executed in California between 1978-2014
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Evan Wagstaff, Los Angeles Times
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Threats against Congress Members
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Written threats against members of congress
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FBI Records: The Vault
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Fire and Police Videos
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A collection of videos from police and fire fighters
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FireandPoliceVideos.com
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Russian Troll Tweets
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Nearly three million tweets from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization responsible for spreading disinformation and disrupting American politics, from between February 2012 and May 2018
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FiveThirtyEight
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The ISIS Files
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"A collection of more than 15,000 pages of internal ISIS documents collected by New York Times investigative journalist and Program on Extremism fellow Rukmini Callimachi during embeds with the Iraqi army."
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George Washington University and the New York Times
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Description
Trial Transcript Collection
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Thousands of New York County criminal trial transcripts from 1883-1927
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Audio/visual Law Publications (French-Canadian)
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"Jurivision is the audiovisual platform for law. Its objective is to make legal knowledge accessible through quality audiovisual content that highlights the work of legal researchers and practitioners in Canada and around the world. Jurivision is an initiative of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa."
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Jurivision
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Justia
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"Justia provides free case law, codes, regulations and legal information for lawyers, business, students and consumers world wide."
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Justia
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US Supreme Court Center
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"Justia provides a searchable and browsable database of all US Supreme Court decisions since the 1790s, as well as links to related sources. We also sponsor the Oyez Project, a multimedia archive that contains audio of Supreme Court oral arguments."
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Justia
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Live Trial Videos
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This site hosts a range of live trial videos. Many postings include multiple videos from the same case at various stages of the court proceedings. Videos are free; they are not transcribed.
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Law and Crime Trial Network
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Court Case Documents
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Court documents from landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases
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Legal Research Society
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Airplane Black Box Last Word Recordings
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Audio recordings of last words from cockpit black boxes
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ListVerse
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911 calls
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Audio recordings of actual 911 calls received in Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Police Department
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Los Angeles Times Legal and Political Documents
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A wide collection of legal and political documents that have been in the news.
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Los Angeles Times
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Michigan Virtual Courtroom
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Michigan Court's virtual courtrooms where you can view court hearings
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Michigan Courts
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Founders Online
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"Correspondence and other writings of seven major shapers of the United States:
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. Over 184,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects."
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National Archives
Private Collections
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The Violence Project
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The Violence Project is "the most comprehensive database of mass shooters" with over 100 variables. "The Violence Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center dedicated to reducing violence in society and using data and analysis to improve policy and practice."
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The Violence Project
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Ted Kaczynski papers, 1996-.
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"Collection consists of three series: Correspondence, the bulk of the collection, which includes letters written to Kaczynski since his arrest in 1996; Publications, consisting of pamphlets, serials, and clippings sent to Kaczynski with a few added by archivists during processing; and Legal Documents, containing drafts of briefs, excluding any materials that fall under attorney-client privilege or are significant to the appeal process. Later additions include photographs and documents (some photocopies) from the FBI." See the website for access information.
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University of Michigan
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Serial Killer Archive
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"The Rosetta Stone of Serial Killer Collections". This collection contains authentic artifacts, including letters, artwork, photos, recorded phone calls, and other documents and artifacts from a range of known serial killers. Access to data requires a fee to be negotiated with the collection holder. Use the 'contact' form at the bottom of the home page.
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serialkillermurderabilia.com
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Data Repositories
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Inside the Courtroom
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A range of videos related to the court (e.g., witness interviews, interrogations, juror interviews, courtroom proceedings, etc.)
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Inside the Courtroom
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Forensic Linguistics Databank (FoLD)
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A range of forensic linguistic and legal language corpora and data collections
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
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Sources of Language and Law (SOULL)
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A range of legal language documents and references
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Universitat Siegen, International Language and Law Association, and Heidelberger Arbeitskreis der Rechtslinguistik
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Crime Vault
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A range of videos documenting crimes (e.g., police interviews, social media live streams, confessions, witness interviews)
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Crime Vault
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The Smoking Gun
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A range of documents from popular culture cases. (Note, this site needs a lot of browsing to find data.)
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TSG Industries
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The FBI Vault
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This repository contains 6,700 documents from FBI case files that have been released to the public. (See also the individual data page for specific case documents that have been identified from this site.)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation