Author: Alexandra Natapoff Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814758584 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 274
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2010 Honorable Mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association Uncovers the powerful and problematic practice of snitching to reveal disturbing truths about how American justice works Albert 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.
Author: Ethan Brown Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1586486330 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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Our criminal justice system favors defendants who know how to play the "5K game": criminals who are so savvy about the cooperation process that they repeatedly commit serious crimes knowing they can be sent back to the streets if they simply cooperate with prosecutors. In Snitch, investigative reporter Ethan Brown shows through a compelling series of case profiles how the sentencing guidelines for drug-related offenses, along with the 5K1.1 section, have unintentionally created a "cottage industry of cooperators," and led to fabricated evidence. The result is wrongful convictions and appallingly gruesome crimes, including the grisly murder of the Harvey family in Richmond, Virginia and the well-publicized murder of Imette St. Guillen in New York City. This cooperator-coddling criminal justice system has ignited the infamous "Stop Snitching" movement in urban neighborhoods, deplored by everyone from the NAACP to the mayor of Boston for encouraging witness intimidation. But as Snitch shows, the movement is actually a cry against the harsh sentencing guidelines for drug-related crimes, and a call for hustlers to return to "old school" street values, like: do the crime, do the time. Combining deep knowledge of the criminal justice system with frontline true crime reporting, Snitch is a shocking and brutally troubling report about the state of American justice when it's no longer clear who are the good guys and who are the bad.
Author: Allison van Diepen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442490314 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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Lines are clearly marked at South Bay High School. It’s mixed territory for the Crips and the Bloods, which means the drama never stops. Julia DiVino wants none of it. No colors, no C-Walks— it’s just not her thing. But when Eric Valienté jumps into her life, everything changes. Lines are redrawn. And then they’re crossed.
Author: Rene Gutteridge Publisher: WaterBrook ISBN: 1400071585 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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A Las Vegas police sergeant faces wacky characters, sincere faith, and surprising twists when he agrees to slip off the retirement track to head up an undercover task force.
Author: Jim Redden Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Welcome to 'Snitch Culture,' a detailed analysis of how the growing surveillance of individuals has created a society far more insidious and pervasive than anything George Orwell ever imagined. Based primarily on the experience in the United States, but equally relevant to the United Kingdom and Europe, the book reveals the enormous energy, effort and money that is being put into creating a vast domestic intelligence network to track every man, woman and child. A fascinating insight into the world of 'big brother'.
Author: Alexandra Natapoff Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479807702 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 288
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"First published over ten years ago, Snitching has become known as the "informant bible," a leading text for advocates, attorneys, journalists, and scholars. This updated edition contains a decade worth of new stories, new data, new legislation and legal developments, much of it generated by the book itself and by Natapoff's own work"--
Author: Victoria Arden Publisher: Litres ISBN: 5046698676 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 26
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The general history of snitching in Europe goes back to ancient times, when various mechanisms of control and betrayal arose in society.Political and social circumstances, such as the struggle for power, class struggle and the desire to preserve the status quo, played an important role in this process.In ancient Rome, for example, whistleblowing served as a tool to eliminate political rivals, which contributed to creating an atmosphere of distrust and fear.
Author: MS TEE Publisher: Royal-T Publishing, LLC ISBN: 0578515156 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 126
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SNITCHING IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS PERPETUATED AS A MEANS TO SOLVE CRIMES AND ALLOW CRIMINALS TO ESCAPE SENTENCES THAT THEY MAY VERY WELL DESERVE. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW THE STREET GAME HAS NEVER BEEN FAIR. THIS IS THE GUIDE TO HOW IT GOES DOWN. For years the government has afforded criminals the opportunity to race other criminals to the finish line of freedom. It’s a game of who can get their attention first as a means to avoid doing long prison terms. The court system is filled with men sitting in the tombs and county jails waiting for their turn to get a better deal and make someone else’s life a living hell.Once upon a time snitching was a shameful act. The abnormal has now become the norm. The government perpetuates this act of betrayal. Times have changed. So, who’s really to blame?
Author: Michael Evans Publisher: Monteme ISBN: 9780974277516 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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When a powerful Harlem drug kingpin becomes a witness for the Feds and takes down his whole crew, his son Jessie's life is changed forever. The wrath of the streets overwhelms him, and he turns his hatred for his father into a murderous rampage. Jessie inherits his own drug crew and a happy trigger finger. He becomes a heartless Snitch Killer.
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