TY - BOOK N2 - Examines the truth behind deals that police officers and prosecuters 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 neighborhoods, and proposes new reforms for the American justice system. AB - Examines the truth behind deals that police officers and prosecuters 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 neighborhoods, and proposes new reforms for the American justice system. T1 - Snitching :criminal informants and the erosion of American justice / DA - c2009. CY - New York : AU - Natapoff, Alexandra. CN - KF9665 CN - KF9665 PB - New York University Press, PP - New York : PY - c2009. ID - 352129 KW - Informers KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Informers KW - Law enforcement SN - 9780814758502 (alk. paper) SN - 0814758509 (alk. paper) SN - 9780814758977 (pbk.) SN - 0814758975 (pbk.) TI - Snitching :criminal informants and the erosion of American justice / ER -