1st Edition

Native Americans, Crime, And Justice

By Marianne O. Nielsen Copyright 1996
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book outlines indigenous institutions and thinking to show Native American responses to contemporary justice problems. It provides resource materials for practitioners in the criminal justice fields and in private agencies providing services to Native peoples.

    Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Context -- The New York Times Yearning to Breathe Free -- Albuquerque (New Mexico) Tribune -- Contextualization for Native American Crime and Criminal Justice Involvement -- Justice and Native Peoples -- Law -- Ann Arbor (Michigan) News Conflicting Cultures -- Self-Determination and American Indian Justice -- Traditional Approaches to Tribal Justice -- Crime -- Tulsa (Oklahoma) World Tribes Find Solution to Child Abuse Law Gap -- Associated Press More Indian Kids Joining Gangs -- Patterns of Native American Crime -- Native American Delinquency -- Trends in Indian Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use -- Hazho's Sokee'—Stay Together Nicely -- Police -- Law and Order The Oneida Tribal Police -- Taking Control -- Policing the Last Frontier -- Courts -- The (Toronto) Globe and Mail Aboriginal Justice Cited as Way to Combat Crime -- Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune Who's the Law of the Land? -- (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star Navajo Project Links Culture to Legal Realm -- Leaving Our White Eyes Behind -- The Process of Decision Making in Tribal Courts -- Hozhooji NAAT' AANII -- Sentencing -- Associated Press Banished Teens Sent to Prison -- Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star Tribune Peltier's 3rd Try for New Trial Rejected -- Discriminatory Imposition of the Law -- I Fought the Law and the Law Won -- Corrections -- The Durango Herald Sweating It Out -- American Indians in Prison -- Discrimination Revisited -- Aboriginal Spirituality in Corrections -- Justice Initiatives -- Edmonton Journal Counselling Judged to Give Natives a Fairer Shake -- Edmonton Journal Brothers Hold Court for Troubled Natives -- Finding the Ways of the Ancestors -- The Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education -- The Future for Native American Prisoners -- Afterword -- Hartford (Connecticut) Courant A Justice System Develops, Based on Tribal Law -- Major Issues in Native American Involvement in the Criminal Justice System

    Biography

    Marianne O. Nielsen