期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2010
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：Though most recently associated with hip-hop's controversial"stop snitchin'" campaign, the snitch has been a much hated figure throughout history and has played an important role in many social groups and subcultures. However, until the last several years, the academic literature on snitching focused almost exclusively on criminals who have served as police informants in exchange for more lenient treatment by the criminal justice system. In this paper, we expand the concept of the snitch by identifying variations of the snitch archetype within U.S. subcultures and by illustrating the broader application of the snitch label within high-crime urban black communities. We argue that an exaggerated anti-snitching "code of the street" weakens informal social control by stigmatizing residents who witness and report neighborhood crime, and simultaneously interferes with the system of formal social control that is necessary for crime prevention and community safety and justice for victims
关键词：snitching; witness intimidation; communities; neighborhoods;crime; Af;rican;Americans; segregation; race; social control; reporting to police; hip;-;hop
