Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

Albert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After being released by Chicago prosecutors, Darryl Moore—drug dealer, hit man, and rapist—returned home to rape an eleven-year-old girl.

In (First Person)2, Day and Eodice offer one of the few book-length studies of co-authoring in academic fields since Lunsford and Ede published theirs over a decade ago. The central research here involves in-depth interviews with 10 successful academic collaborators from a range of disciplines and settings. The interviews explore the narratives of these informants' experience -- what brought them to collaborate, what cognitive and logistical processes were involved as they worked together, what is the status of collaborated work in their field, and so on -- and situate these informants within the broader discussion of collaboration theory and research as it has been articulated over the last 10 years