RESOURCES & SCHOLARSHIP
BOOKS
- Robert Bloom, Ratting: The Use and Abuse of Informants in the American Justice System (Praeger, 2002)
- Ethan Brown, Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice (Public Affairs, 2007)
- Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld & Barry Scheck, Actual Innocence: Five days to execution and other dispatches from the wrongly convicted (Doubleday, 2000)
- Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant: A True Story (Broadway Books, 2000)
- Dennis Fitzgerald, Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy and Procedure (CRC Press, 2007)
- John Grisham, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2006)
- Stephen Mallory, Informants: Development and Management (Copperhouse Publishing Co., 2000)
- Gary Marx, Undercover: Police Surveillance in America (University of California Press, 1988)
- Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (New York University Press, 2009)
ARTICLES
- Trevor Aaronson, "The Informants," Mother Jones (Sept./Oct. 2011) (on terrorism informants)
- Jeannine Amber, "The Streets are Watching," Essence Magazine (Jan. 2007)
- Radley Balko, "Guilty Before Proven Innocent," Reason Magazine (May 2008)
- Andrea Dennis, "Collateral Damage? Juvenile Snitches in America's Wars on Drugs, Crime and Gangs," 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1145 (2009)
- Peter Joy, "Brady and Jailhouse Informants: Responding to Injustice," 57 Case Western Res. L. Rev. 619 (2007)
- Alexandra Natapoff, "Snitching: The Institutional and Communal Consequences," 73 U. Cin. L. Rev. 645 (2004)
- Alexandra Natapoff, "Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions," 37 Golden Gate L. Rev. 107 (2006)
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Jeffrey S. Neuschatz, Deah S. Lawson, Jessica K. Swanner, Christian A. Meissner & Joseph S. Neuschatz, “The Effects of Accomplice Witnesses and Jailhouse Informants on Jury Decision Making,” 32 Law & Hum. Behav. 137-149 (2008)
- Michael Rich, "Coerced Informants and Thirteenth Amendment Limitations on the Police-Informant Relationship," 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. 681 (2010)
- Daniel Richman, "Cooperating Clients," 56 Ohio St. L.J. 69 (1995)
- Wadie Said, "The Terrorist Informant," 85 Wash. L. Rev. 687 (2011)
- Jessica Swanner, Denise Beike, Alexander Cole, "Snitching, Lies, and Computer Crashes: An Experimental Investigation of Secondary Confessions," 34 Law & Hum. Behav. 53 (2009)
- Jessica Swanner & Denise Beike, "Incentives Increase the Rate of False but not True Secondary Confessions from Informants with an Allegiance to a Suspect," 34 Law & Hum. Behav. 418 (2010)
- Ian Weinstein, "Regulating the Market for Snitches," 47 Buffalo L. Rev. 563 (1999)
- Ellen Yaroshefsky, "Cooperation with Federal Prosecutors: Experiences of Truth Telling and Embellishment," 68 Fordham L. Rev. 917 (1999)
OTHER MEDIA
- Better this World, POV/PBS (2011) (documentary)
- American Violet (2009) (movie)
- The Informant (2009) (movie)
- The Wire (HBO) (2002-2007) (television series)
- Snitch: Frontline, PBS (1999) (documentary)
REPORTS
Confidential Informants in New Jersey, ACLU (2011)
Numbers Game: The Vicious Cycle of Incarceration in Mississippi, ACLU/Justice Strategies (2011) (identifying the rampant use of criminal informants as "one of the most troubling aspects of the state's criminal justice system")
Jailhouse Snitch Testimony: A Policy Review, The Justice Project, Washington D.C. (2007)
American Bar Association Report on Jailhouse Informant Testimony (2005)
Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin, Chapter III, Canada (1996)
