Snitching : criminal informants and the erosion of American justice /

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Examines the truth behind deals that police officers and prosecutors 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 neigh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Natapoff, Alexandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Informers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Informers > United States.
Law enforcement > United States.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
Lois > Application > États-Unis.
LAW > Forensic Science.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Informers.
Informers > Legal status, laws, etc.
Law enforcement.
Spitzel
Strafverfolgung
V-Mann
Rechtsstellung
Rechtssystem
Informant
United States.
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The real deal : understanding snitching
  • To catch a thief : the legal rules of snitching
  • Beyond unreliable
  • Secret justice
  • Snitching in the 'hood
  • "Stop snitching"
  • How the other half lives : white collar and other kinds of cooperation
  • Reform.

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