| Description |
xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert Yazzie -- 1. Yearning to Breathe Free: Urban Indians Long for Lives Left Behind / N. R. Kleinfield -- 2. Urban Refuge / Tina Griego -- 3. Contextualization for Native American Crime and Criminal Justice Involvement / Marianne O. Nielsen -- 4. Justice and Native Peoples / James Dumont -- 5. Conflicting Cultures: Casino Growth Reveals Differences Between Indian Law, State Law / Federico Martinez -- 6. Self-Determination and American Indian Justice: Tribal Versus Federal Jurisdiction on Indian Lands / Zoann K. Snyder-Joy -- 7. Traditional Approaches to Tribal Justice: History and Current Practice / Troy L. Armstrong, Michael H. Guilfoyle and Ada Pecos Melton -- 8. Tribes Find Solution to Child Abuse Law Gap / Julie DelCour -- 9. More Indian Kids Joining Gangs -- 10. Patterns of Native American Crime / Robert A. Silverman -- 11. Native American Delinquency: An Overview of Prevalence, Causes, and Correlates / Troy L. Armstrong, Michael H. Guilfoyle and Ada Pecos Melton -- 12. Trends in Indian Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use / Fred Beauvais -- 13. Hazho's Sokee' - Stay Together Nicely: Domestic Violence Under Navajo Common Law / James Zion and Elsie B. Zion -- 14. The Oneida Tribal Police: Politics and Law Enforcement / Edward C. Byrne -- 15. Taking Control: Native Self-Government and Native Policing / Douglas M. Skoog -- 16. Policing the Last Frontier / Otwin Marenin -- 17. Aboriginal Justice Cited as Way to Combat Crime: Incarceration Expensive System That Is Not Working, Judge Says / Peter Moon -- 18. Who's the Law of the Land? / Joan Abrams -- 19. Navajo Project Links Culture to Legal Realm / Alisa Wabnik -- 20. Leaving Our White Eyes Behind: The Sentencing of Native Accused / Rupert Ross -- 21. The Process of Decision Making in Tribal Courts / Tom Tso -- 22. Hozhooji Naat'aanii: The Navajo Justice and Harmony Ceremony / Philmer Bluehouse and James Zion -- 23. Banished Teens Sent to Prison -- 24. Peltier's 3rd Try for New Trial Rejected: Court Rules Prosecution Was Legitimate / Duchesne Paul Drew -- 25. Discriminatory Imposition of the Law: Does It Affect Sentencing Outcomes for American Indians? / Ronet Bachman, Alexander Alvarez and Craig Perkins -- 26. "I Fought the Law and the Law Won" / C. Hutton, F. Pommersheim and S. Feimer -- 27. Sweating It Out: Religious Ritual Helps Inmates Pass Time / Juan Espinosa -- 28. American Indians in Prison / E. Grobsmith -- 29. Discrimination Revisited / T. Bynum and R. Paternoster -- 30. Aboriginal Spirituality in Corrections / J. B. Waldram -- 31. Counselling Judged to Give Natives a Fairer Shake / Mike Sadava -- 32. Brothers Hold Court for Troubled Natives / Mike Sadava -- 33. Finding the Ways of the Ancestors / E. J. Dickson-Gilmore -- 34. The Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education / Maggie Hodgson -- 35. The Future for Native American Prisoners / E. Grobsmith -- 36. A Justice System Develops, Based on Tribal Law / Hilary Waldman -- 37. Major Issues in Native American Involvement in the Criminal Justice System / Marianne O. Nielsen |
| Summary |
Native Americans, Crime, and Justice is the first book in many years to provide students with a comprehensive overview of Native Americans and the unique challenges they face as justice is meted out, both in the United States and Canada. Crossing disciplines, this important anthology, which includes the voices of both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, provides students in criminology, sociology, and Native American studies courses with articles ranging from the scholarly to the more humanistic. Also included are a number of news accounts that complement the other pieces with a sense of immediacy and timeliness about the involvement of Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Students and general readers alike will come away from reading this collection with a better, more informed understanding of Native Americans, crime, and justice whether they are learning about the unique problem of tribal versus federal jurisdiction on Indian lands, patterns of Native American crime, the process of decision making in tribal courts, or Native American delinquency |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-319) |
| Subject |
Crime -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Nielsen, Marianne O.
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Silverman, Robert A., 1943-
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| LC no. |
96020809 |
| ISBN |
0813329884 (hardcover) |
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0813329892 (paperback) |
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