Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and the Criminal Justice Response: What Is Known

• NCJ Number: 223691
• Date Published: January 2008
• Length: 168 pages
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored

Annotation

Based on a synthesis of the empirical literature and original data analyses, this report presents an overview of the epidemiology of violence against American-Indian and Alaska-Native (AI&AN) women as well as a review of the criminal justice responses to this violence.

Abstract

Based on a synthesis of the empirical literature and original data analyses, this report presents an overview of the epidemiology of violence against American-Indian and Alaska-Native women as well as a review of the criminal justice responses to this violence.