Collections & Corpora
Corpora and data collections for quantitative analysis, plus other forensic linguistics repositories outside IIFLL.
Public, corpus-ready
| Title | Provider | Description | Link |
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| BYU Corpus of Early Modern English (BYU-COEME) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Congressional Record Corpus | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpora from "dark" platforms | Sviatlana Höhn | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of Early Statutes at Large (CESAL) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of State Conventions on the Adoption of the Constitution (COSCAC) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of Supreme Court Opinions of the United States (COSCO-US) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of US Caselaw (CUSC) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of United States State Statutes (CorUSSS) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of the Current US Code (COCUSC) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Corpus of the Records of the Constitutional Convention (CORCC) | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Enron Trader Tapes | Matteo Fuoli, Adam Nix, Alicia Wickert, Annina Van Riper | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| IIFLL practice corpus | IIFLL | Five short invented Indonesian texts (social media post, private message, witness statement, contract clause, reader's letter) for practising concordances and word lists. Not real case data. Indonesian · 5 texts, about 330 words | Open ↗ |
| Jack the Ripper Corpus | Andrea Nini | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Malicious Forensic Text Corpus | Andrea Nini | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Shneidman and Farberow Suicide Note Corpus | Shneidman, E.S., & Farberow, N.L. (1957). Clues to Suicide. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. No online link; see the ForensicLing.com listing for the published reference. | Open ↗ |
| The Enron Email Dataset | William W. Cohen, MLD, CMU | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Threatening English Language (TEL) Corpus | Tammy Gales and Andrea Nini | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| UK Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions (CoCELD) | Paula Rodríguez-Puente and David Hernández-Coalla | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
Public, preparation required
| Title | Provider | Description | Link |
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| 62-B District Court City of Kentwood | 62-B District Court City of Kentwood | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| 911 calls | Los Angeles Police Department | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| ADL: Extremism, Technology and Society, and Antisemitism Research | ADL | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Airplane Black Box Last Word Recordings | ListVerse | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Airplane Black Box Last Words | PlaneCrashInfo.com | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Audio/visual Law Publications (French-Canadian) | Jurivision | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| BYU Law & Corpus Linguistics Legal Opinions Archive | Brigham Young University | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| COVID-19 Lies (Tweets) | Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte, Yoshitomo Matsubara, Sean Young, Sameer Singh | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| California Police Records Access Project | CalMatters | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Canada's National Judicial Institute - Model Jury Instructions | Canada's National Judicial Institute | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Canadian Court Case files | Supreme Court of Canada | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Canadian Court Opinions | CanLII | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Chat logs of Child Predators | Perverted Justice | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Chicago Police Department Public Records Release | Chicago Police Department | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Chicago Police Department Public Records Releases | Chicago Police Department | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Civil Court Videos | Caught in Providence | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Civil Rights Court Documents | ACLU-PA | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Cockpit Voice Recorder Database | CVR Database | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Collection of Suicide Notes | Surfin_Away | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Convicting the Innocent (DNA Exonerations Database) | Brandon L. Garrett | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Court Case Documents | Legal Research Society | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Crime Lights | Crime Lights | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Crime Vault | Crime Vault | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Criminal Words | Criminal Words | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Dark Web Project | Intelligence and Security Informatics Data Sets | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Database of Russian Trolls on Twitter | NBC News | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Death Penalty USA | Death Penalty USA | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Death Penalty Verdict Forms | Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Death Row Final Statements: Bizarre | BuzzFuse | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Death Row Final Statements: California | Evan Wagstaff, Los Angeles Times | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Death Row Final Statements: Notorious killers | Brie Stimson, Fox News | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Death Row Final Statements: Texas | Texas Department of Criminal Justice | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Death Threats | The Smoking Gun | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| DocumentCloud | DocumentCloud | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Epstein Library | U.S. Department of Justice | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Famous (and Infamous) Opening and Closing Arguments | Pace Law School Library | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Famous (and Infamous) Testimony | Pace Law School Library | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Famous Trials | Professor Douglas O. Linder | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Famous suicide notes | MeD India | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Fire and Police Videos | Fire and Police Videos | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Founders Online | National Archives | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Full length police interview videos | Across the Table | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Inside the Courtroom | Inside the Courtroom | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Jihadology | Aaron Zelin | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Justia | Justia | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| K-12 School Shooting Database | David Riedman | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Live Trial Videos | Law and Crime Trial Network | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Los Angeles Times Legal and Political Documents | Los Angeles Times | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole | Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Michigan Virtual Courtroom | Michigan Courts | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| NYCLU Data | NYCLU | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Piracy Trial Documents | The Library of Congress: LAW | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Pledges to Harm | Marlon Hurt | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police Files | Police Files | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police Interrogation Videos | r/interrogationvideos | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police Interrogation and Confession Videos | Red Circle Interrogations and Confessions | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police Intrerrogation Videos | The Mob Reporter | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police Videos | Real World Police | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Police-Citizen Videos | Audit the Audit | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Pulse Tragedy Public Records | City of Orlando | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Sample Cross-Examination Transcripts | IBJ Criminal Defense Wiki: | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| School Shooters.info: Resources on School Shootings, Perpetrators, and Prevention | Peter Langman, Ph.D. | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Secret Canada | The Globe and Mail | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Senate Judiciary Hearings | Committee on the Judiciary | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Serial Killer Court Transcripts | Serial Killer Info | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Slightly Warped Suicide Notes | Slightly Warped | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Suicide--Notes | Tumblr | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings | R Street | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP) | Tech Against Terrorism | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The Guantánamo Testimonials Project | UCDavis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The ISIS Files | George Washington University and the New York Times | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The Lumen database | Lumen | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The Mass Shooter Database | The Violence Prevention Project | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The Violence Project | The Violence Project | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Threats against Congress Members | FBI Records: The Vault | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Threats to celebrities | Complex | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Trial Transcript Collection | John Jay College of Criminal Justice | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ Broken link |
| U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments | U.S. Supreme Court | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| US Securities & Exchange Commission | EDGAR | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| US Supreme Court Center | Justia | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Unabomber Collection | – | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. No online link; see the ForensicLing.com listing for the published reference. | Open ↗ |
| Washington Post Database of fatal shootings by police officers | Washington Post | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| Wiretaps | The Mob Reporter | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
Permission required
| Title | Provider | Description | Link |
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| Corpus of Spoken Threats (CoST) | – | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Held privately; see the access note. Available on request from the creator; contact details are in the ForensicLing.com listing. | Open ↗ |
| Serial Killer Archive | serialkillermurderabilia.com | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Held privately; see the access note. Access requires permission from the data holder. | Open ↗ |
| Ted Kaczynski papers, 1996-. | University of Michigan | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Held privately; see the access note. Access requires permission from the data holder. | Open ↗ |
| The Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ) | The Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS) at King’s College London | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Held privately; see the access note. Access requires permission from the data holder. | Open ↗ |
External repository
| Title | Provider | Description | Link |
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| Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) | Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University | A forensic linguistic databank run by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Check the site for the access terms of each data set. English | Open ↗ |
| ForensicLing.com | Tammy Gales & Dakota Wing | A repository of publicly available forensic linguistic data: individual case data and corpus collections, mostly North American and in English. English | Open ↗ |
| Sources of Language and Law (SOULL) | Universitat Siegen, International Language and Law Association, and Heidelberger Arbeitskreis der Rechtslinguistik | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The FBI Vault | The Federal Bureau of Investigation | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
| The Smoking Gun | TSG Industries | Listed on ForensicLing.com. Open the link for the material and its terms of use. | Open ↗ |
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