Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country /

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In Indigenous America, human rights and justice take on added significance. The special legal status of Native Americans and the highly complex jurisdictional issues resulting from colonial ideologies have become deeply embedded into federal law and policy. Nevertheless, Indigenous people in the Uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Jarratt-Snider, Karen (Editor), Nielsen, Marianne O. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Indigenous justice.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social justice > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider.
  • part I. Crime.
  • 1. Another type of hate crime : violence against American Indian women in reservation border towns / Cheryl Redhorse Bennett
  • 2. Sterilization of American Indian women revisited : another attempt to solve the "Indian problem" / Linda M. Robyn
  • 3. The great gambler : Indian gaming, crime, and misconception / Cheryl Redhorse Bennett
  • part II. Social justice
  • 4. To be Native American and not American Indian : an issue of indigenous identity or historically blind politically correct labeling? / William G. Archambeault
  • 5. "Exercising" sovereignty : American Indian collegiate athletes / Alisse Ali-Joseph
  • part III. Community responses
  • 6. Stalking in Indian country : enhancing tribal sovereignty through the Tribal Law and Order Act and the Violence Against Women Act / Anna Luna-Gordinier
  • 7. Asserting self- governing authority beyond the federal recognition paradigm : North Carolina's adaptation of the Indian Child Welfare Act / Danielle V. Hiraldo
  • 8. Indigenous on the margins : the struggle to address juvenile justice in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand / Eileen Luna-Firebaugh and Anna Luna-Gordinier
  • Conclusion / Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen.

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