Abstract

An informant is anyone who supplies information to a third party; usually, the information is of a sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential nature. In the criminal justice system, the term criminal informant (aka confidential informant, CI, or “snitch”) is generally used to describe someone who provides investigators with information related to criminal activity and those responsible. This chapter focuses on criminal informants and their relationship to miscarriages of justice.

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