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Snitching - Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (Hardcover)
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Snitching - Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (Hardcover)
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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 public, criminal snitching
has invaded the American legal system in risky and sometimes
shocking ways. Snitching is the first comprehensive analysis of
this powerful and problematic practice, in which informant deals
generate unreliable evidence, allow criminals to escape punishment,
endanger the innocent, compromise the integrity of police work, and
exacerbate tension between police and poor urban residents. Driven
by dozens of real-life stories and debacles, the book exposes the
social destruction that snitching can cause in high-crime African
American neighborhoods, and how using criminal informants renders
our entire penal process more secretive and less fair. Natapoff
also uncovers the far-reaching legal, political, and cultural
significance of snitching: from the war on drugs to hip hop music,
from the FBI's mishandling of its murderous mafia informants to the
new surge in white collar and terrorism informing. She explains how
existing law functions and proposes new reforms. By delving into
the secretive world of criminal informants, Snitching reveals deep
and often disturbing truths about the way American justice really
works.
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