Description: Further DetailsTitle: SnitchingCondition: NewSubtitle: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American JusticeISBN-10: 0814758975EAN: 9780814758977ISBN: 9780814758977Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/08/2011Description: 2010 Honorable Mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar AssociationUncovers the powerful and problematic practice of snitching to reveal disturbing truths about how American justice worksAlbert 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Alexandra NatapoffGenre: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Snitching
Title: Snitching
Subtitle: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
ISBN-10: 0814758975
EAN: 9780814758977
ISBN: 9780814758977
Release Date: 04/08/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 271 Pages
Publication Name: Snitching : Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: General, Law Enforcement, Criminal Law / General, Criminology
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Author: Alexandra Natapoff
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
