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Natapoff launches 'Snitching Blog'

I'm pleased to learn that one of my favorite thinkers on criminal justice topics - Loyola (CA) law prof Alexandra Natapoff - has launched the "Snitching Blog" to focus on issues surrounding confidential informants (something I've encouraged her to do for at least the last three years!). Her "About" page opens with this description of the site's subject:snitching = when police or prosecutors offer lenience to criminal suspects in exchange for information or cooperation Snitching Blog is devoted to 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 in the system trying to work off their own criminal liability by giving information to the government...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).