Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Indians in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization and the SAVE Native Women Act

Smith, Jane M. ; Thompson, Richard M., II

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Family violence;    Indians;    Criminal law;    Criminal statistics;   

RP-ID  :  R42488
RP-ID  :  R42488_2012Apr18

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A report looking at incidences of violence against women of American Indian ethnicity in relation to legal jurisdiction.American Indians experience violent crimes at a rate much higher than the general population. This trend carries over to domestic violence: American Indian women experience domestic and dating violence at more than twice the rate of non-Indian women. Most of this violence involves an offender of a different race. This fact creates a jurisdictional problem because tribal courts do not have criminal jurisdiction over crimes committed within the tribe's jurisdiction by non-Indians.