Snitching criminal informants and the erosion of american justice pdf

By delving into the secretive world of criminal informants, snitching reveals deep and often disturbing truths about the way american justice really works. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice, by alexandra natapoff new york university press, 2009. Winner of the 2010 american bar association honorable mention for books. Prosecuting the informant culture university of michigan law. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice albert burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice nyu press, 2009 and the new criminal justice thinking nyu press, 2017. Download it once and read it on your kindle device. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice, by alexandra natapoff new york university. 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. Get snitching criminal informants and the erosion of american justice pdf file for free from our online library pdf file. After all, informants trade information with the government in order to escape liability for their own crimes, and can even earn the ability to continue offending. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice. Criminal informants and the erosion of american justice november 11, 2009. Criminal informant policies have costs as well as benefits.

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