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20 Nov 2012, 6:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
.'Aggregation and urban misdemeanors'In her latest paper, legal academic Alexandra Natapoff, one of Grits' favorite legal thinkers, considers   the extent to which high-volume court systems create "pressure to aggregate" misdemeanor cases in ways that may weaken "and sometimes eliminates individuated scrutiny of defendants and the evidence in their cases; people are largely evaluated, convicted, and punished by category and based on … [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 5:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"And our pal Alexandra Natapoff, now of UC Irvine and author of Punishment Without Crime, a book-length treatment of misdemeanor questions, suggested the trend might also relate to "changes in police arrest quota and promotion policies" or attempts to reduce "Jail costs. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 6:29 am by Kiran Bhat
Elsewhere, Lyle Denniston of this blog, Barbara Leonard of Courthouse News, Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Savage of the Nation Now blog of the Los Angeles Times, Alexandra Natapoff of Snitching Blog, and the Associated Press all cover the Court’s denial of cert. in Cash v. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 3:53 pm
Cole;Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions by Alexandra Natapoff;Exoneration and Wrongful Condemnations: Expanding the Zone of Perceived Injustice in Death Penalty Cases by Craig Haney;The Time Has Come for Law Enforcement Recordings of Custodial Interviews, Start to Finish by Thomas P. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 12:47 pm by Fredrick Vars
” Adam Gershowitz Adele Bernhard Adne Cummings Alex Kreit Alex Landon Alexandra Natapoff Allie Robbins Amy Eldridge Andrea Armstrong Andrea Roth Angela Davis Ann McGinley Anna Roberts Anne Hornsby Anne Poulin Art Leavens Barbara Stark Bennett Capers Beryl Blaustone Bonnie Williams Brian Clarke Brian Gallini Brian Sheppard Bryan Adamson Carlin Meyer Carmen Gonzalez Carol Steiker Caroline Harada Cassandra Robertson Catherine Grosso Catherine Rogers Charles Bobis Charles Nadler… [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 9:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Alexandra Natapoff has argued that snitching promotes crime, either because it's knowingly tolerated by authorities (in one notorious, recent instance Dallas Sheriff's deputies allowed an informant to help pull off an armed robbery without intervening) or by reducing sentences for criminals who inform. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 7:22 am by Eric Miller
  Fourth and finally, (as Alexandra Natapoff compellingly argues) we tend to prioritize felonies over misdemeanors, on some scale of seriousness, despite the fact that for many individuals the impact of a misdemeanor may be as severe as some felonies. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 8:56 am
The Gazette cites a poignant comment made by law professor Alexandra Natapoff: "criminal snitching is a Frankenstein's monster that has turned on and begun to consume its law enforcement creator. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 7:38 am
That's why law prof Alexandra Natapoff argues that widespread use of snitches can be "crime producing and corrupting. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 5:40 am
"None of the problems with overuse of informants made it into the story, for example, how use of criminal informants can actually contribute to crime (see this article by Alexandra Natapoff on the topic). [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 5:57 am by SHG
“It’s very unusual for the public to get a glimpse of how active informants interact with their police handlers,” said Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who monitors informer use nationwide. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 4:24 am by Russ Bensing
  Alexandra Natapoff, author of the Snitching Blog, has written about the severity of the problem, and has even proposed adoption of a Daubert-style pre-trial reliability hearing for such testimony. [read post]
6 Apr 2023, 10:51 am by bndmorris
Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching:  Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (2022). 17. [read post]
13 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
It is a voracious maw of saturation policing strategies, misdemeanor prosecutions, and fees, fines, and jail that bears no moral relationship to the problem it is meant to solve.A number of scholars and criminal justice reform organizations have been pointing this out for years, and books like Misdemeanorland, by Issa Kohler Hausmann, Punishment Without Crime, by Alexandra Natapoff, and A Pound of Flesh, by Alexes Harris, as well as white papers and policy proposals by… [read post]