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Professor Janet Ainsworth,
M.A. Yale, 1977, J.D. Harvard 1980.

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Book Chapters

Children and Criminal Procedure, in The Chicago Companion to the Child, (Richard A. Shweder ed., U. of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2008).

Re-imaging Childhood and Reconstructing the Legal Order: The Case for Abolishing the Juvenile Court, in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld ed., 1999).

Confucian Culture Wars, in Books on Law (1999) (reviewing Melissa Macaulay, Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press 1999)).

In a Different Register: The Pragmatics of Powerlessness in Police Interrogation, in The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice and Crime Control (Richard A. Leo et al. eds., 1998).

Achieving the Promise of Justice for Juveniles: A Call for the Abolition of Juvenile Court, in Governing Childhood (Anne McGillivray ed., 1997).

Criminal Trial Practice and Techniques, in Washington Lawyer Practice Manual xvii-1–xvii9 (Seattle-King County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division 1989) (co-author).

Appellate Review of Decisions in District and Municipal Courts, in Criminal Law and Procedure 1-1–1 (University of Washington Continuing Legal Education 1987).

Articles

'You Have the Right to Remain Silent...' But Only if You Ask for it Just So: The Role of Linguistic Ideology in American Police Interrogation Law, 15 International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 1 (2008).

Linguistic Features of Police Culture and the Coercive Impact of Police Officer Swearing in Police-Citizen Street Interaction, 1 Register and Context 1 (2008).

Linguistic Ignorance or Linguistic Ideology?: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Issues in Police Interrogation Rules, 51 Tex. Linguistic Forum 104 (2007).

Curses, Swearing, and Obscene Language in Police-Citizen Interactions: Why Lawyers and Judges Should Care, Proceedings of the 2nd European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law, 315 M. Teresa Turell, Maria Spassova, and Jordi Cicres eds. (2007).

Linguistics as a Knowledge Domain in the Law, 54 Drake L. Rev. 651 (2006).

On Academic Discrimination, 11 Cardozo Women’s L. J. 497 (2005).

Law in (Case)books, Law (School) in Action: The Case for Casebook Reviews, 20 Seattle U. L. Rev. 271 (1997).

Categories and Culture: On the "Rectification of Names" in Comparative Law, 82 Cornell L. Rev. 19 (1996).

On Seeing Chinese Law From the Chinese Point of View: An Appreciative Look at the Scholarly Career of Professor William Jones, 74 Wash. U. L.Q. 547 (1996).

Balancing Juvenile Justice, 26 Contemp. Soc. 84 (1997) (book review).

The Effectiveness of the Court in Protecting the Rights of Juveniles in Delinquency, 6 J. Future Child. 64 (1996).

Youth Justice in a Unified Court: A Response to Critics of Juvenile Court Abolition, 36 B.C. L. Rev. 927 (1995).

Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation, 2 Forensic Linguistics 195 (1995) (book review).

Malign Neglect: Race, Crime and Punishment in America, Champion (1995) (book review).

Trail Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation, 2 Forensic Linguistics 195 (1995).

In a Different Register: The Pragmatics of Powerlessness in Police Interrogation, 103 Yale L.J. 259 (1993).

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, 37 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 259 (1992) (book review).

Interpreting Sacred Texts: Preliminary Reflections on Constitutional Discourse in China, 43 Hastings L.J. 273 (1992).

Re-imagining Childhood and Reconstructing the Legal Order: The Case for Abolishing Juvenile Court, 69 N.C. L. Rev. 1083 (1991), reprinted in The Child, the Family, and the State (1994).

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