Snitching: Criminal informants and the erosion of American justice

Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-260

  Natapoff, Alexandra ^a  

^a LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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