Decolonizing Anti-Rape Law and Strategizing Accountability in Native American Communities

This article discusses the issues surrounding gender violence and colonialism in Native American Tribal Communities and the complications that legal impunities present to antiviolence activists. Topics include statistics about the incidence of sexual assault on Native American women by white assaila...

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Main Author: Smith, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
In: Social justice
Year: 2010, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 36-43
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Deer, Sarah
Crimes against women
Anti-rape movement
Restorative Justice
Citizen participation in criminal justice administration
Legal status of Native Americans
Rape > Law & legislation
Rape prevention
Native American women
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Summary:This article discusses the issues surrounding gender violence and colonialism in Native American Tribal Communities and the complications that legal impunities present to antiviolence activists. Topics include statistics about the incidence of sexual assault on Native American women by white assailants, the inability of tribal justice systems to prosecute non-Native offenders and a lack of community-based violence response systems, and work by former U.S. Department of Justice employee Sarah Deer to decolonize anti-rape laws.
ISSN:2327-641X