Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwältin) at a German prosecution office and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Huddersfield and researches the construction of crime, criminals and victims across a variety of text types. Among other publications, she is the author of two monographs, Crime and Corpus (2015) and Language and Crime (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) as well as co-editor of The Linguistics of Crime (2022).Mahmood K. Ibrahim (known as Mahmood Baban) is Professor of Linguistics at Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University in Iraq and director and supervisor of the language courses at Kirkuk Institute. He completed his PhD in English Language and Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK, in 2018.