Native Americans and the criminal justice system

Book

Native Americans and the criminal justice system / edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross and Larry Gould ; with a foreword by Duane Champagne.

Ross, Jeffrey Ian. (Added Author). Gould, Larry Allen, 1950- (Added Author).

Summary:

Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System offers a comprehensive approach to explaining the causes, effects, and solutions for the presence and plight of Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Contributions from scholars and experts in Native American issues examine the ways in which society's response to Native Americans is often socially constructed.

Record details

ISBN: 1594511799
ISBN: 1594511802
ISBN: 9781594511790
ISBN: 9781594511806
Physical Description: xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado : Paradigm Publishers, [2006]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Native Americans, criminal justice, criminological theory, and policy development / Jeffrey Ian Ross and Larry Gould -- Navajo criminal justice : a Jungian perspective / Marilyn Holly -- Criminalizing culture : an anthropologist looks at Native Americans and the U.S. legal system / Dorothy H. Bracey -- Justice as phoenix : traditional indigenous law, restorative justice, and the collapse of the state / James W. Zion -- The link between environmental policy and the colonization process and its effects on American Indian involvement in crime, law, and society / Linda Robyn and Thom Alcoze -- Alcoholism, colonialism, and crime / Larry Gould -- Examining the interpretation and application of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 / Tracey M. Bouvier -- Law enforcement and the American Indian : challenges and obstacles to effective law enforcement / Eileen Luna-Firebaugh and Samuel Walker -- Policing Native Americans off the rez / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Imprisonment and American Indian medicine ways : a comparative analysis of conflicting cultural beliefs, values, and practices / William G. Archambeault -- Criminalization of the treaty right to fish : response of the Great Lakes Chippewa / Linda Robyn -- Indian gaming and the American Indian criminal justice system / Nicholas C. Peroff -- Research on juvenile delinquency in Indian communities : resisting generalization / Lisa Bond-Maupin, Taka X. GoodTracks, and James R. Maupin -- Recent trends in community-based strategies for dealing with juvenile crime in the Navajo nation / Marianne O. Nielsen, Dorothy Fulton, and Ivan Tsosie -- Scattered like reindeer : Alaska natives and the loss of autonomy / Nella Lee -- Integrating the past, present, and future / Larry Gould and Jeffrey Ian Ross.