Dr Elisabeth Carter

I teach the following modules:

Undergraduate:

L6 Risk and Crime

Dissertation module

Personal tutor

Postgraduate:

Critical Criminology

Victimology

Understanding Crime and Criminal Careers

Dissertation module

Personal tutor

Undergraduate courses taught

• Criminology BSc (Hons)

Postgraduate courses taught

• Criminology MA

Papers

• Carter, E. (2023) Compelled to comply: Exposing the exploitation of communicative relationships by fraudsters to gain and harness compliance from their victims. The British Journal of Criminology.
• Carter, E. (2021) Distort, extort, deceive and exploit: Exploring the inner workings of a romance fraud, The British Journal of Criminology 61(2): 283–302.
• Carter, E. (2015) The anatomy of scam communications: An empirical analysis, Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 11(2): 89-103.
• Carter, E. (2015) Laughing matters: A conversation analytic account of the use of laughter by suspects and officers in the police interview, The Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology 50th Anniversary Special Issue 14(1): 99-113.
• Carter, E. (2015) A conversation analytic exploration of laughter in the police interview, SAGE Research Methods January 15: 68-85.
• Carter, E. (2014) When is a lie not a lie? When it's divergent: Examining lies and deceptive responses in a police interview, International Journal of Language and the Law/Linguagem e Direito‏ (1):122-140.

Books

• Carter, E. (2013) Analysing police interviews: Laughter, confessions and the tape, London: Continuum. Winner of the ‘Criminology Book Prize' Awarded by the British Society of Criminology

Book chapters

• Carter, Hansson, Himma-Kadakas and Kikerpill (2023, in print) ‘Online deviance, real-world harms: Disinformation and victimhood at the intersection of reality'. Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
• Carter, E. (2022) Forensic Linguistics. In: J. Verschueren and J. Östman (eds., second edition) Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 572–586
• Carter, E. (2020) Examining Lies and False Answers in Interviews and Police interrogations. In: Celestino de Almeida, D., Coulthard, M. and Sousa-Silva, R. (eds.) Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics, pp. 292-315
• Carter, E. (2017) "The language of scammers" In: Fenge, L. Lee, S. and Brown, K. (eds.) Safeguarding Adults: Scamming and Mental Capacity. London: Sage, pp.141-155
• Gabbert, F., Hope, L., Carter, E., Boon, R. and Fisher, R. (2015) ‘Communicating with Witnesses: The role of initial accounts during investigative interviews'. In: G. Oxburgh, T. Grant, T. Myklehust and B. Milne (eds.) Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts: Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. London: Wiley, pp.107-132
• Carter, E. (2014) Forensic Linguistics. In: J. Verschueren and J. Östman (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing, pp1-18
• Carter, E. (2014) Deception in Different Contexts. In T. R. Levine and J. Golson Encyclopedia of Deception. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 264-268

Qualifications and expertise

• BA Psycholinguistics
• MA Criminology
• MA Criminological Research
• PhD Sociology (Criminology)

Areas of specialism

• Criminology
• Forensic Linguistics

Dr Elisabeth Carter is a Criminologist and Forensic Linguist whose individual expertise, unrelenting drive and trademark enthusiasm make a real-world difference in tackling fraud. An unwaveringly generous and popular collaborator, her distinctive and internationally-recognised academic expertise is matched by her relentless passion and skill in translating this into compelling and accessible guidance, training, conference keynotes and publications that inspire action and drive effective change. Her critically-acclaimed research provides unique insights relevant across the entire fraud-fighting landscape, directly achieving better psychological and financial outcomes for victims, increasing public protection from fraud, and challenging negative narratives around fraud victimhood through delivering effective strategies for cross-industry practitioners and using her media profile to reach the public on national and international levels. Her knowledge exchange and impact has led to real changes across all fraud-fighting sectors and has been recognised through her being awarded Outstanding Tackling Economic Crime Professional (TECAs) and a finalist for Fraud Leadership in the Public Sector Fraud Awards.

I disseminate my research through writing cross-sector public-facing guidance, books and academic papers, in print media articles and blogs, through keynotes and invited research presentations at public, industry and academic events, and through the development and delivery of industry training. I talk about my research and examine real criminal cases on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, Word of Mouth and Moneybox, and regularly feature on TV series including BBC One's For Love or Money (series 1, 2 and 3), BBC One's Dirty Rotten Scammers, BBC One's Scam Interceptors (series 2) and Dave's Special Ops: Crime Squad UK. I use my research to support law enforcement campaigns, provide national guidance and guide and direct police operations, deliver practical strategies across law enforcement, financial sector, charity sector, online dating sector and local government to disrupt the power of fraudulent communication, and to safeguard people from harm.Talking to Michael Rosen on Radio 4's Word of Mouth about the language used by fraudsters who fake romantic relationships: online for monetary gain: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v91g

Professional and scholarly affiliations

• British Society of Criminology
• British Sociological Association
• Law and Society Association
• International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics
• European Society of Criminology
• American Society of Criminology