{"id":54,"date":"2010-03-26T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/26\/the-snitching-blog\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:12:34","slug":"the-snitching-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/26\/the-snitching-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snitching Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/snitching.jpg\" title=\"Snitching by Alexandra Natapoff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/snitching.jpg\" alt=\"Snitching by Alexandra Natapoff\" align=\"left\" height=\"217\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>A blog can be a great place to dip into a new topic. Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitching.org\/\" title=\"Snitching Blog\">Snitching Blog<\/a>, for example&#8211;an excellent resource for news and information about criminal informants, how they operate, and how they affect the U.S. criminal justice system. The blog has entries about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitching.org\/2010\/02\/gregory_taylor_exonerated_by_n.html\" title=\"Gregory Taylor Exonerated\">cases<\/a> in which an informant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitching.org\/2010\/03\/even_jurors_were_worried_about.html\" title=\"Even Jurors Were Worried\">played a critical role<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitching.org\/2010\/02\/important_npr_series_on_house.html\" title=\"NPR Series on House of Death murders\">heads-up<\/a> about a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123385312\" title=\"The Case of a Confidential Informant\">NPR series<\/a> on a confidential informant and the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/30\/the-house-of-death\" title=\"Article about House of Death murders\">House of Death<\/a> murders, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitching.org\/2010\/02\/reform_efforts_in_texas.html\" title=\"Legislative Reform Efforts\">legislative reform efforts<\/a>. You can find links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/legacy\/reports\/2000\/usa\/\" title=\"Human Rights Watch report\">reports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/sourcebook\/\" title=\"Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics\">data<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/hearings\/July2007\/hear_071907_4.html\" title=\"Judiciary Committee Hearing on Informant Practices\">government hearings<\/a> in the blog&#8217;s sidebar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lls.edu\/academics\/faculty\/natapoff.html\" title=\"Faculty page for Alexandra Natapoff\">Alexandra Natapoff<\/a>, a professor at Loyola Law School, authors the blog. She recently published a book entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&amp;ti=1,1&amp;Search_Arg=snitching&amp;Search_Code=FT*&amp;CNT=50&amp;SL=None&amp;PID=vKRnxfJGBPtVFuJiaUJeyhk7UQiU&amp;SEQ=20100326141832&amp;SID=1\" title=\"Catalog record for Snitching\">Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice<\/a>, Cornell Law Library call number <u>KF9665 .N38x 2009<\/u>. You also may want to check out Ethan Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=11&amp;ti=1,11&amp;Search_Arg=informants&amp;Search_Code=CMD&amp;CNT=50&amp;PID=plo6X3D5yZ8gWKctpl4MVdiTsV09&amp;SEQ=20100326143258&amp;SID=4\" title=\"Catalog record for Snitch\">Snitch: Informants, Cooperators &amp; the Corruption of Justice<\/a>, Cornell&#8217;s Olin Library call number <u>HV8141 .B74 2007<\/u>. Ancient history buffs should try <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=38&amp;ti=1,38&amp;Search_Arg=informants&amp;Search_Code=CMD&amp;CNT=50&amp;PID=plo6X3D5yZ8gWKctpl4MVdiTsV09&amp;SEQ=20100326143258&amp;SID=4\" title=\"Catalog record for Imperial Inquisitions\">Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian<\/a> by Steven H. Rutledge, Olin Library call number <u>JC89 .R87x 2001<\/u>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog can be a great place to dip into a new topic. Take the Snitching Blog, for example&#8211;an excellent resource for news and information about criminal informants, how they operate, and how they affect the U.S. criminal justice system. The blog has entries about cases in which an informant played a critical role, a <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/26\/the-snitching-blog\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[341,338,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}