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Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice.
SNITCH: INFORMANTS, COOPERATORS & THE CORRUPTION OF JUSTICE
By Ethan Brown
Public Affairs, 273 pages
BY THE TIME "Stop Snitchin'" hit mainstream awareness last year--with a memorable moment when the rapper Cam'ron told Anderson Cooper that he wouldn't even snitch on a serial killer next door--the slogan and subculture phenomenon of T-shirts, music video references and DVDs had become easy for pundits to tut-tut as irresponsible and dangerous, a street-life rebellious pose that smacked of witness intimidation.
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Journalist Ethan Brown's book places the anti-snitching trend in its broader political and cultural context, arguing that it is "the poisoned fruit of two decades of highly punitive sentencing policy and the secretive, sprawling, and mostly unregulated cooperator and informant institution."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice.