Snitching : : Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice /

Snitching : : Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice / / Alexandra Natapoff.

Winner of the 2010 American Bar Association Honorable Mention for BooksAlbert 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-dr...

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Natapoff, Alexandra,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Real Deal
  • I. Anatomy of an Informant Deal
  • II. Implications of Informant Practices
  • Chapter 2: To Catch a Thief
  • I. Creating and Rewarding Criminal Informants
  • II. Using Informants as Investigative Tools
  • III. Defendant Rights against Official Informant Use
  • IV. Legal Limits: What the Government Can’t Do
  • V. Informant Use in Comparative Perspective
  • VI. American Informant Law
  • Chapter 3: Beyond Unreliable
  • I. Lying Informants
  • II. Law Enforcement Dependence on Informants
  • III. Juries
  • IV. When the Innocent Plead Guilty
  • V. The Important but Limited Role of Procedural Protections
  • Chapter 4: Secret Justice
  • I. Investigation
  • II. Plea Bargaining
  • III. Discovery
  • IV. Public Transparency and Executive Accountability
  • V. Informants and the Internet
  • Chapter 5: Snitching in the ‘Hood
  • I. More Snitches
  • II. More Crime
  • III. More Violence
  • IV. Racial Focusing
  • V. More Tension between Police and Community
  • VI. More Distrust
  • VII. Snitching as a Costly Social Policy
  • Chapter 6: “Stop Snitching”
  • I. “In the Game”
  • II. Distrust of the Police
  • III. Witness Intimidation
  • IV. The Role of Rap and Hip Hop
  • V. What Does “Stop Snitching” Mean?
  • Chapter 7: How the Other Half Lives: White Collar and Other Kinds of Cooperation
  • I. FBI Informants and Organized Crime
  • II. Political Informants
  • III. White Collar Crime and Cooperation
  • IV. Terrorism
  • Chapter 8: Reform
  • I. Defining Informants
  • II. Data Collection and Reporting on Informant Creation and Deployment
  • III. Informant Crime Control and Reporting
  • IV. Protecting Informants
  • V. Defense Informants
  • VI. Police Investigative Guidelines
  • VII. Prosecutorial Guidelines
  • VIII. Heightened Judicial Scrutiny
  • IX. Criminal Procedure Reforms
  • X. Improving Police-Community Trust and Communication
  • Conclusion
  • I. Governing through Crime, Governing through Informants
  • II. Implications
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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