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By Alexandra Natapoff

Winner of the 2010 American Bar organization Honorable point out for Books

Albert Burrell spent 13 years on loss of life row for a homicide he didn't devote. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in the course of a erroneous raid on her domestic. After being published by means of Chicago prosecutors, Darryl Moore—drug broker, hit guy, and rapist—returned domestic to rape an eleven-year-old girl.

Such tragedies are results of snitching—police and prosecutors delivering bargains to legal offenders in trade for info. even though it is sort of invisible to the general public, felony snitching has invaded the yank criminal procedure in dicy and infrequently stunning methods. Snitching is the 1st entire research of this strong and not easy perform, within which informant offers generate unreliable facts, let criminals to flee punishment, endanger the blameless, compromise the integrity of police paintings, and exacerbate pressure among police and terrible city citizens. pushed by way of dozens of real-life tales and debacles, the e-book exposes the social destruction that snitching may cause in high-crime African American neighborhoods, and the way utilizing felony informants renders our complete penal procedure extra secretive and not more reasonable. Natapoff additionally uncovers the farreaching felony, political, and cultural value of snitching: from the warfare on medicinal drugs to hip hop tune, from the FBI’s mishandling of its murderous mafia informants to the hot surge in white collar and terrorism informing. She explains how current legislations services and proposes new reforms. through delving into the secretive global of legal informants, Snitching unearths deep and infrequently worrying truths concerning the manner American justice quite works.

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