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Native Americans, crime, and justice

Author: Marianne O Nielsen; Robert A Silverman
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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Native Americans, crime, and justice.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604948662
Online version:
Native Americans, crime, and justice.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)607789415
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marianne O Nielsen; Robert A Silverman
ISBN: 0813329884 9780813329888 0813329892 9780813329895
OCLC Number: 34798095
Description: xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 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.
Responsibility: edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Robert A. Silverman.
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Abstract:

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.

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