<i>The Language of Sexual Crime.</i> Janet Cotterill (ed.) (2007) Palgrave Macmillan. 264pp. ISBN 0-230-00170-X

Shonna Trinch is an associate professor in the Department Anthropology at John Jay College where she teaches Sex and Culture, American Cultural Pluralism and the Law and Forensic Linguistics. Her book, Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence (John Benjamins, 2003) is about the ways in which Latina women and sociolegal authorities in 10 different institutional settings collaborate and conflict in the creation of legal narratives of gender-related assaults. Professor Trinch has published articles in Language in Society, Text, and Sociolinguistics. She is currently working on the language of jury selection in American voir dire. And her new research project focuses on linguistic landscapes in New York City.