Snitch : informants, cooperators & the corruption of justice / Ethan Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ethan, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Informers--United States.

Informers.

Informers--United States--Case studies.

Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

United States.

Drug control--United States.

Drug control.

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages : facsimile ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, [2007]

Contents:

Feeding the federal beast : Giuliani day, Congress's anticrime bills, and candy bar justice

Bad to worse : snitching scandals, coddled cooperators

King Tut's third strike : the murder of Tupac, three strikes legislation and the fall of Brooklyn's most storied hustler

Line 'em up and indict 'em : the cooperator casting call that brought down Euka Wadlington

Mark's bad trip : the shaky science that led to increased penalties for ecstasy dealing and the dealer who turned cooperator because of them

Brotherhood of the bookstore : the $100,000 informant, the Thirty-fourth Street bomb plot, and the preemptive indictment brought by the feds

Jonathan Luna's last days : the rap label, the rogue cooperator, and the murdered prosecutor

Killer cooperators : the Harvey family and St. Guillen murders

Stop snitching : the barber, the corrupt cops, and the prosecutor on the frontlines of the battle over witness intimidation in Baltimore

A session with sessions : sentencing reform and snitching solutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781586484927

1586484923

OCLC:

157023392