An Informant is someone who provides information to law enforcement agencies. Quite frequently, the informant will themselves be a criminal and in such cases they will usually provide information in order to obtain lenient treatment for themselves. Some informants may provide information over an extended period of time in return for money or for police to overlook their own criminal activities. Quite often someone will become an informant following their arrest. Informants are most common in the world of organized crime because, by it's very nature, organized crime involves many people who are aware of each other's guilt in a variety of illegal activities. There have also been informants within terrorist organizations, such as the Irish Republican Army. Informants are regarded as traitors by their former criminal associates, and most criminal and terrorist organizations punish informers with death. Informers therefore have to be protected, either by being segragated in prison or - if they are not incacerated - relocated and given a new identity. Gangsters and other criminal types frequently employ slang words. As one would expect, the slang terms for "informant" are very derogatory, including ''rat'', ''snitch'' and ''squealer''. [http://www.answers.com/informant&r=67] In the United Kingdom, ''grass'' is a common word for an informant. ==Famous Informants== * Henry Hill * Mickey Featherstone * Tommaso Buscetta * Joe Massino * Salvatore Gravano ==Also see== * Pentiti * Witness Protection Program
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An Informant is someone who provides information to law enforcement agencies. Quite frequently, the informant will themselves be a criminal and in such cases they will usually provide information in order to obtain lenient treatment for themselves. Some informants may provide information over an extended period of time in return for money or for police to overlook their own criminal activities. Quite often someone will become an informant following their arrest. Informants are most common in the world of organized crime because, by it's very nature, organized crime involves many people who are aware of each other's guilt in a variety of illegal activities. There have also been informants within terrorist organizations, such as the Irish Republican Army. Informants are regarded as traitors by their former criminal associates, and most criminal and terrorist organizations punish informers with death. Informers therefore have to be protected, either by being segragated in prison or - if they are not incacerated - relocated and given a new identity. Gangsters and other criminal types frequently employ slang words. As one would expect, the slang terms for "informant" are very derogatory, including ''rat'', ''snitch'' and ''squealer''. [http://www.answers.com/informant&r=67] In the United Kingdom, ''grass'' is a common word for an informant. ==Famous Informants== * Henry Hill * Mickey Featherstone * Tommaso Buscetta * Joe Massino * Salvatore Gravano ==Also see== * Pentiti * Witness Protection Program
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