Overcoming Language Barriers in the Criminal Justice System: Can Language Assistance Technology Help?
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 23, 2007
ANNOTATION: The use of language assistance technology in the criminal justice system to address language barriers is discussed. Sections of this publication are: executive summary; introduction; roundtable participants; about the technology -- one-way, two-way, or remote simultaneous interpreting technology; roundtable discussion -- the technology (i.e., one way demonstration, applications, and potential drawbacks, two-way under development, and remote simultaneous interpreting demonstration, applications, and potential drawbacks); testing the technology; funding and implementation -- obtaining funding, training, potential legal issues; further considerations and next steps; and conclusion.