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A great new blog for resources on criminal informants, aka snitches

By Douglas A. Berman

CrimProf Alexandra Natapoff has done ground-breaking work on criminal informants in articles and a book, and I am pleased to learn that she has now brought her expertise to the webvia a new blog called Snitching Blog.   An introductory post here provides details of the project: Snitching Blog is about a part of our criminal system that most people know little or nothing about: criminal informants, or snitches.  At any given moment, thousands of informants are trying to work off their own criminal liability by giving information to the government. These informants may be in court, in prison, on the street, or in the workplace.  Police and prosecutors often rely heavily on information obtained from snitches ? especially in drug enforcement but also in white collar crime, organized crime, and terrorism investigations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).