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Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

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Abstract

Snitching -- 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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Snitching: criminal informants and the erosion of American justice

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Englisch

Verlag

New York University Press

ISBN

9780814759042

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