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International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory (IJCST) publishes articles from around the
world and across all areas of criminology and sociology. Its articles encourage looking anew at
conventional topics or identifying new ones for research. IJCST publishes theoretical, methodological and
empirical papers. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed papers IJCST contains invited papers, book
reviews, and short commentary sections.
Editor-In-Chief
Reza Barmaki
Editors
David Baker
Toledo, USA
Rachel Berman
Ryerson University, Canada
Ozien Celebi
Haccettepe University, Turkey
Christina R. Clark
St. Paul University, Ottawa
Alyson Cole
City University of New York, USA
Jim Cosgrave
Trent University, Canada
Jamie Doughney
Victoria University of Technology, Australia
Robert Doyle
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Patricia Kennedy
University College Dublin, Ireland
Maka Khittasangha
Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Thailand
Youna Kim
The American University of Paris, France
Or. Martin King
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Taman Kitossa Brock University, Canada
William Magee
University of Toronto, Canada
Mojtaba Mandavi
University of Alberta, Canada
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Joanne Minaker
Grant MacEwan College, Canada
Jerry Persaud
The State University of New York (New Paltz)
Jason L. Powell
University of Central Lancashire, UK
Parbattie Ramsarran
York University, Canada
Kostas Rontos
Aegean University, Greece
Asish K. Roy
University of Calcutta, India
Michael W. Scott
London School of Economics, UK
Musa Shteiwi
University of Jordan, Jordan
Yiorgos Skoulas
University of Macedonia, Greece
Mark Spencer
Brock University, Canada
C. R. Stones
Rhodes University, South Africa
Keivan Zahedi
Shaid Beheshti University, Iran
Masood Zangerieh
Center for Research on Inner City Health
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Paul Taylor
Chester University, UK
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Vol 6, No 4 (2013)
Table of Contents
Articles The Deviance of the Zopkeepers
Martin O'Brien
Policing and Mental Illness in the era of deinstutionalisation and mass
incarceration: A UK Perspective
Ian David Cummins
Normiessness and Seeds of Criminality in Kashmir: A Social Analysis
Aijaz Ahmad Mir
Relativizing Universality: Sociological Reactions to Liberal Universalism
Mark Horsley
The application of criminological theory to a Japanese context: Power- control
theory Hiroshi Tsutomi, Laura Bui, Mitsuaki Ueda, David P. Farrington
The Effects of Emotional Exhaustion on Prison Employees' Job Satisfaction and
Personal Accomplishments
Avdi S. Avdija, Sudipto Roy
Administering Steroid Drugs to Minor Girls for Flesh Trade in India
mamta patel
Micropanics: A Theoretical Explanation for Anti-Gay Hate Crime Perpetration
Nicholas A. Guittar
From individual to shared responsibility for financial crime
FREDERIC COMPIN
Status Inconsistency, Narcissism, and Ego Bashing in the Workplace: A Theoretical
Model
Alexander Abdennur
Losing the Utility of the Responsibility to Prevent: the confines of international law
and focus on genocide prevention
Foluke Ifejola Ipinyomi
Victim Travel-To-Crime Areas: The Experience from Nigerian International Tourist
Attraction Site
Emmanuel 0. Omisore, Adewumi I. Badiora, Olaoluwa P. Fadoyin
Kurt Cobain's Suicide Note Case: Forensic Linguistic Profiling Analysis
Eva T. S. Sudjana, Nurul Fitri
Police Corruption in India
Dr. Ravikanth Babu Lamani, G. S. Venumadhava
Crises in Female Existence: Female Foeticide and Infanticide in India
avanish bhai patel
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International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2013, 217-227
217
Kurt Cobain’s Suicide Note Case: Forensic Linguistic Profiling
Analysis
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Eva T. S. Sudjana1
Nurul Fitri2
Abstract
Forensic linguistics is the branch of the linguistics study which investigates legal text in
crime. From its point of view, forensic linguistics is really helping the court or police or law
attribute in investigating criminal case. Aspects of linguistics plays important role when it
deals with legal texts such as suicide note. We can use the aspects of linguistics in
investigating suicide text in order to see the proposition of the victim referred to suicide, the
real motives of writing that letter or reveal what are the intentions of that suicide letter by
using the branch of linguistics like phonology, semantic, pragmatics, discourse approaches,
etc. The data is taken from Kurt Cobain suicide note which he left before he died. The
aimed of this research is to identify the genuineness of his suicide note and also to figure
out the motives of the subject dealing with suicide. Furthermore, this research tends to
make the authorship profiling of Kurt Cobain based on the lexical which contain negative
meaning that are related to his psychological.
Introduction
Recently forensic linguistics gain so many attention from linguist in university all over the world
notably in Europe and America. This field grew for the first time in in the United States and Europe in
the late of 1990s. Linguists are interested in forensic linguistics because this is a sort of interesting
field which is growth slowly in the development of linguistic research. It can be seen from research
files that there are many linguists who are investigating legal text and gaining deep understanding in
this field. There are so many organization which supporting the development of this research. For
instance: University of Birmingham in Europe are trying to develop this field by building an
organization for forensic linguist which is named Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of
Speech, Language and the Law. It is provided for those who are interested in forensic linguistics.
They can share the idea and knowledge about forensic linguistic in this organization. Forensic
linguistics is the branch of the linguistics study which investigates legal text in crime. From its point
of view, forensic linguistics is really helping the court or police or law attribute in investigating
criminal case.
McMenamin (2008: 86) states that “Forensic Linguistics is the scientific study as applied to
forensic and contexts”. Forensic linguistics need another linguistics fields in identifying and solving
cases in legal forum, whether the cases appear in the courtroom or out of courtroom. The target of
forensic analysis is forensic texts taken from criminal context like murderer, suicide letter or note,
suspicious death, narcotics investigations, terrorism, etc. Olsson (2008:1) states “Literally any text or
item of spoken language has the potential of being a forensic text. If a text is somehow implicated in a
1 English Linguistics Department, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia, [email protected] 2 English Linguistics Department, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia, [email protected]