Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

Examines the truth behind deals that police officers and prosecuters offer to criminals in exchange for information, critiquing its problematic generation of unreliable evidence, endangerment of the innocent, and compromise of police work, with a particular focus on high-crime African-American neighborhoods, and proposes new reforms for the American justice system.

Author(s): Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2009-11-16
Pages: 272
Categories: Law