ABSTRACT
Snitches, snouts, touts, and grasses are just some of the colloquial terms used to refer to those who pass on information to the police. As the majority of the academic work, policy documents, reports and judicial case reports in this area refer to people who pass on information as informants, for consistency this chapter will use the term informant. An informant is a person who actively seeks damning knowledge information on target groups/individuals, rather than the one who simply passes information onto the police (Lieberman 2007, Jones-Brown and Shane 2011, p. 5, Miller 2011, p. 206).
