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Snitching - Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Second Edition (Hardcover)
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Snitching - Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Second Edition (Hardcover)
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Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the
American criminal system really works Curtis Flowers spent
twenty-three 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. Rachel Hoffman was murdered at age
twenty-three while working for Florida police. Such tragedies are
consequences of snitching. Although it is nearly invisible to the
public, the massive informant market shapes the American legal
system in risky and sometimes shocking ways. Police rely on
criminal suspects to obtain warrants, to perform surveillance, and
to justify arrests. Prosecutors negotiate with defendants for
information and cooperation, offering to drop charges or lighten
sentences in exchange. In this book, Alexandra Natapoff provides a
comprehensive analysis of this powerful and problematic practice.
She shows how informant deals generate unreliable evidence, allow
serious criminals to escape punishment, endanger the innocent, and
exacerbate distrust between police and poor communities of color.
First published over ten years ago, Snitching has become known as
the "informant bible," a leading text for advocates, attorneys,
journalists, and scholars. This influential book has helped free
the innocent, it has fueled reform at the state and federal level,
and it is frequently featured in high-profile media coverage of
snitching debacles. This updated edition contains a decade worth of
new stories, new data, new legislation and legal developments, much
of it generated by the book itself and by Natapoff's own work. In
clear, accessible language, the book exposes the social destruction
that snitching can cause in heavily-policed Black neighborhoods,
and how using criminal informants renders our entire penal process
more secretive and less fair. 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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