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Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

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Description for Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice Paperback. An eye-opening look at the impact of the use of the criminal informant throughout the American legal system and beyond from the mafia and hip hop music to white collar crime and terrorism Num Pages: 271 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.

2010 Honorable Mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
Uncovers the powerful and problematic practice of snitching to reveal disturbing truths about how American justice works
Albert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After being released by Chicago prosecutors, Darryl Moore—drug dealer, hit man, and rapist—returned home to rape an eleven-year-old girl.
Such tragedies are consequences of snitching—police and prosecutors offering deals to criminal offenders in exchange for information. Although it is nearly invisible to the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814758977
SKU
V9780814758977
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About Alexandra Natapoff
Alexandra Natapoff is the Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal and editor of The New Criminal Justice Thinking.

Reviews for Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
Natapoff does a good job of explaining the law that governs the use of informants, and of describing how the all-too-rare regulatory schemes, such as FBI guidelines, work. One would expect this much from any law professor; Natapoff, however, goes much further. One of the truly impressive contributions of the book comes in her explanation of the effects of widespread ... Read more

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