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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 matched sample parole board data);
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data repositories (e.g., Aston University's FoLD repository).
Public Forensic Linguistic & Legal Language Corpora
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Description
Malicious Forensic Text Corpus
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Andrea Nini
Approximately 100 malicious threatening texts. Metadata is included where known.
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Description
Shneidman and Farberow Suicide Note Corpus
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Shneidman, E.S., & Farberow, N.L. (1957). Clues to Suicide. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company
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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Corpus of State Conventions on the Adoption of the Constitution (COSCAC)
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Brigham Young University
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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Corpus of Early Statutes at Large (CESAL)
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Brigham Young University
Over 470,000 words from more than 480 texts. The corpus includes early laws passed by US Congress.
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NEW THREAT CORPUS
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Tammy Gales and Andrea Nini
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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Description
BYU-Corpus of Early Modern English (BYU-COEME)
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Brigham Young University
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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Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA)
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Brigham Young University
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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Description
Corpus of Supreme Court Opinions of the United States (COSCO-US)
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Brigham Young University
Over 94 million words from more than 60,000 texts from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions published through 2017.
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Description
Corpus of the Records of the Constitutional Convention (CORCC)
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Brigham Young University
Over 680,000 words from more than 800 texts documenting the records of the federal convention of 1787.
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Description
Corpus of US Caselaw (CUSC)
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Brigham Young University
Over 4 million words from more than 8000 texts, which include published court decisions between 1760-1799.
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Public Data Collections for Corpus Compilation
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Description
U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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U.S. Supreme Court
Transcripts of the oral arguments on cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
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Description
The ISIS Files
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George Washington University and the New York Times
"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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Description
Police Interrogation and Confession Videos
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Red Circle Interrogations and Confessions
This site hosts videos of police interrogations and confessions from a range of cases.
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Description
Police Interrogation Videos
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r/interrogationvideos
A variety of videos of police interviews and interrogations
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School Shooters.info: Resources on School Shootings, Perpetrators, and Prevention
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Peter Langman, Ph.D.
"This site is a compendium of documents relating to a wide range of active shooter incidents in educational settings. The purpose of the site is to help prevent school shootings and to provide insight into the perpetrators of large-scale school violence."
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911 calls
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A Call for Help r/911Calls
Collections of 911 calls (e.g., disturbing, strange, celebrity)
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Live Trial Videos
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Law and Crime Trial Network
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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Description
Piracy Trial Documents
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The Library of Congress: LAW
Trial documents from piracy cases pre-1923
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Serial Killer Court Transcripts
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Serial Killer Info
A range of legal documents from serial killer cases across the United States
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Description
Fire and Police Videos
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FireandPoliceVideos.com
A collection of videos from police and fire fighters
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Description
Court Case Documents
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Legal Research Society
Court documents from landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases
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Description
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project
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UCDavis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
Various testimonials from inmates, workers, and others affiliated with Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
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Description
Canadian Court Opinions
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CanLII
Searchable database of Canadian court opinions
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Description
Full length police interview videos
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Across the Table
A collection of full-length police interview videos
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Description
Death Threats
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The Smoking Gun
Death threats (primarily against public figures)
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Death Row Final Statements: Texas
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Last statements from death row offenders prior to execution
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Description
911 calls
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Los Angeles Police Department
Audio recordings of actual 911 calls received in Los Angeles
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Death Row Final Statements: California
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Evan Wagstaff, Los Angeles Times
Last words of the 13 men executed in California between 1978-2014
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Description
Senate Judiciary Hearings
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Committee on the Judiciary
Videos and transcripts of U.S. Senate Judiciary hearings
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Description
Airplane Black Box Last Word Recordings
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ListVerse
Audio recordings of last words from cockpit black boxes
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Description
Death Row Final Statements: Bizarre
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BuzzFuse
A collection of bizarre last words from a range of criminals prior to execution
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Description
Chat logs of Child Predators
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Perverted Justice
A collection of chat logs between child predators and perverted justice volunteers, who portrayed themselves as children. NOTE, as of 2019, they are ceasing operations, but the chat logs are currently still available on their website.
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Description
Threats against Congress Members
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FBI Records: The Vault
Written threats against members of congress
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Description
Los Angeles Times Legal and Political Documents
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Los Angeles Times
A wide collection of legal and political documents that have been in the news.
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Airplane Black Box Last Words
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PlaneCrashInfo.com
Transcripts of last words from cockpit black box recordings
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Description
Civil Court Videos
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Caught in Providence
Videos of civil court interactions
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Description
Trial Transcript Collection
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Thousands of New York County criminal trial transcripts from 1883-1927
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Description
Civil Rights Court Documents
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ACLU-PA
A range of legal documents (e.g., motions, briefs, complaints, decisions) from cases related to civil rights.
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Police-Citizen Videos
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Audit the Audit
Videos from police body and car cams (embedded within the videos)
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911 calls
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911 Florida Raw Audio
Audio recordings of 911 calls to the Daytona, FL police department (embedded shortly into the podcasts)
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Private Collections
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Description
Ted Kaczynski papers, 1996-.
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University of Michigan
"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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Serial Killer Archive
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serialkillermurderabilia.com
"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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Data Repositories
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Description
Inside the Courtroom
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Inside the Courtroom
A range of videos related to the court (e.g., witness interviews, interrogations, juror interviews, courtroom proceedings, etc.)
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Description
Forensic Linguistics Databank (FoLD)
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
A range of forensic linguistic and legal language corpora and data collections
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Sources of Language and Law (SOULL)
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Universitat Siegen, International Language and Law Association, and Heidelberger Arbeitskreis der Rechtslinguistik
A range of legal language documents and references
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Crime Vault
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Crime Vault
A range of videos documenting crimes (e.g., police interviews, social media live streams, confessions, witness interviews)
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The Smoking Gun
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TSG Industries
A range of documents from popular culture cases. (Note, this site needs a lot of browsing to find data.)
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