Offers a comprehensive approach to explaining the causes, effects, and solutions for the presence and plight of Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Articles from scholars and experts in Native American issues examine the ways in which society's response to Native Americans is often socially constructed.

I: Introduction; 1: Native Americans, Criminal Justice, Criminological Theory, and Policy Development; II: Theoretical Issues in the Area of Native Americans and Criminal Justice; 2: Navajo Criminal Justice: A Jungian Perspective; 3: Criminalizing Culture; 4: Justice as Phoenix; 5: The Link between Environmental Policy and the Colonization Process and Its Effects on American Indian Involvement in Crime, Law, and Society; III: Current Policy Issues Affecting Native Americans and Criminal Justice; 6: Alcoholism, Colonialism, and Crime; 7: Examining the Interpretation and Application of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978; 8: Law Enforcement and the American Indian; 9: Policing Native Americans Off the Rez; 10: Imprisonment and American Indian Medicine Ways; 11: Criminalization of the Treaty Right to Fish; 12: Indian Gaming and the American Indian Criminal Justice System; 13: Research on Juvenile Delinquency in Indian Communities; 14: Recent Trends in Community-Based Strategies for Dealing with Juvenile Crime in the Navajo Nation; 15: Scattered Like the Reindeer; IV: Conclusion; 16: Integrating the Past, Present, and Future