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