Book Looks at Confidential Informants in Criminal Cases; Do the Same Issues Apply in the NCAA Enforcement Process?

Two professors, who recently wrote a book entitled Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations, have highlighted some of the same issues that NCAA investigators face relying on such witnesses during the investigatory process.   The book, written by criminologists Dean Dabney of Georgia State University and Richard Tewksbury of the University of Louisville, reveals that “the practice, while aiding in investigations and arrests, can also extract huge personal,