Native American Women and Incarceration -- Law and Policy in Native American History -- Incarceration from a Philosophical Perspective and the History of the Women's Prison System in the United States -- Historical Trauma and the Need for Healing and Perspectives of Native Spirituality -- Gentle Action Theory -- Cree Traditional Justice -- Narratives from Native American Women's Experience of Incarceration and Healing the Sacred Hoop Workshop and Gentle Action Theory -- Discoveries, Conclusion, and Future Research.
Summary:
"The Incarceration of Native American Women offers academics, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice system a different approach to wellness and recovery while providing a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical experiences of Native Americans in relation to criminology"-- Provided by publisher. "In The Incarceration of Native American Women, Carma Corcoran examines the rising numbers of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian Country. With years of experience as a case management officer, law professor, consultant to tribal defender's offices, and workshop leader in prisons, she believes this upward trajectory of incarceration continues largely unacknowledged and untended. She explores how a combination of F. David Peat's gentle action theory and the Native traditional ways of knowing and being could heal Native American women who are or have been incarcerated. Colonization and the historical trauma of Native American incarceration runs through history, spanning multiple generations and including colonial wartime imprisonment, captivity, Indian removal, and boarding schools. The ongoing ills of childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug and alcohol addiction and the rising numbers of suicides are indicators that Native people need healing. Based on her research and work with Native women in prisons, Corcoran provides a theory of wellness and recovery that creates a pathway for meaningful change. The Incarceration of Native American Women offers students, academics, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice system a new method of approach and application while providing a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical experiences of Native Americans in relation to criminology"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
New visions in Native American and indigenous studies
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