Publications

Publications

These are a selection of few key publications to let interested readers dive deeper into the Hub’s work.

Short introductions

Fraser, H. (2019).  New linguistics research casts doubt on decades-old murder conviction. The Conversation

Burridge, K. (2017). The dark side of mondegreens: How a simple mishearing can lead to wrongful conviction The Conversation

Fraser, H. (2019). Don’t believe your ears: ‘Enhancing’ forensic audio can mislead juries in criminal trials. The Conversation

Fraser, H. (2013). Covert recordings as evidence in court: the return of police “verballing?” The Conversation

McMahon, M., Fraser, H. (2023). Transcription of indistinct forensic audio: Time for reform. Law Institute of Victoria Journal, (August), 20–23.

Fraser, H. (2021). How misconceptions about transcription affect the criminal justice system. Tiro: The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription, (3).

Fraser, H. (2020). Introducing the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence. Judicial Officers’ Bulletin, 32(11), 117–118.

Non-technical articles

Fraser, H. (2025). “You’ve got the wrong Shorty!”: Further insights into the legal misconceptions that cause transcript injustice in forensic contexts. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 1–29.

Fraser, H. (2021). The development of legal procedures for using a transcript to assist the jury in understanding indistinct covert recordings used as evidence in Australian criminal trials: A history in three key cases. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 8(1), 59–75.

Fraser, H., & Kinoshita, Y. (2021). Injustice arising from the unnoticed power of priming: How lawyers and even judges can be misled by unreliable transcripts of indistinct forensic audio. Criminal Law Journal, 45(3), 142–152.

Fraser, H. (2020). Enhancing forensic audio: What works, what doesn’t, and why. Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, 8(1), 85–102.

Fraser, H. (2020). Forensic transcription: The case for transcription as a dedicated branch of linguistic science. In M. Coulthard, A. May, & R. Sousa-Silva (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (pp. 416–431). Oxfordshire: Routledge.

Fraser, H., & Loakes, D. (2020). Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court. Law Text Culture, 24(1), 405–429.

Fraser, H. (2019). The reliability of voice recognition by ear witnesses: An overview of research findings. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 6(2), 1–9.

More detailed treatments

Fraser, H. (2023). The Eastman transcripts: A case study calling Australian linguists to action against legal misconceptions about language in forensic evidence. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 43(4), 314–413.

Fraser, H. (2022). Forensic transcription: Legal and scientific perspectives. In C. Bernardasci, D. Dipino, D. Garassino, E. Pellegrino, S. Negrinelli, & S. Schmid (Eds.), Speaker Individuality in Phonetics and Speech Sciences: Speech Technology and Forensic Applications (pp. 19–32). Milano: Officinaventuno.

Fraser, H. (2019). Enhancing and priming at a voir dire: can we be sure the judge reached the right conclusion? Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences.

Fraser, H. (2018). Forensic transcription: How confident false beliefs about language and speech threaten the right to a fair trial in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 38(4), 586–606.