Popular Justice and Community Regeneration: Pathways of Indigenous Reform

by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Overview

Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and increased political and legal autonomy. Indigenous activities in areas of community healing have created a fervor of interest as native peoples have shared experiences with programs that reduce addiction, family violence, child abuse, and sociocultural disintegration of traditional communities. Through ethnographic and indigenous contributions this volume penetrates the psychosocial aspects of the indigenous movement in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It analyzes community-based reforms and shows how years of experience in adversity, peacemaking, and community preservation have equipped native peoples with skills they now wish to share for spiritual world healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275951313
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/13/1995
Series:	German Library; 59
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

KAYLEEN M. HAZLEHURST is Senior Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia./e She is the author of Political Expression and Ethnicity: Statecraft and Mobiliation in the Maori World (Praeger, 1993) and A Healing Place: Indigenous Visions of Personal Empowerment and Community Recovery (1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Indigenous Models for Community Reconstruction and Social Recovery by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst
Reclaiming the Community
Social Policy and Canada's Aboriginal People: The Need for Fundamental Reforms by John H. Hylton
Making the Criminal Law Your Own—The Tokelau Endeavour by A. H. Angelo
Maori and Youth Justice in New Zealand by T. Olsen, G. Maxwell and A. Morris
'Slay the Monsters': The Peacemaker Court and Violence Control Plans of the Navajo Nation by Robert Yazzie and James W. Zion
Mediation within Aboriginal Communities: Issues and Challenges by Marg O'Donnell
'The Strength of Community': The Native Counselling Services of Alberta Story by Amanda Nielsen Adkins
Healing the Hurts
Honouring Native Women: The Backbone of Native Sovereignty by Elsie B. RedBird
'A Fitting Remedy': Aboriginal Justice as a Community Healing Strategy by Marcia Hoyle
Addressing Aboriginal Crime and Victimization in Canada: Revitalizating Communities, Cultures, and Traditions by Curt Griffiths and Charlene Beleau
'Body, Mind, and Spirit': Native Community Addictions, Treatment, and Prevention by Maggie Hodgson
We Al-Li 'Fire and Water': A Process of Healing by Judy Atkinson and Coralie Ober

Editorial Reviews

Examines some of the advances in the prevention and treatment of indigenous crime that have accompanied moves toward greater autonomy for the native peoples of the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand over the past two decades. Describes programs for crime control, assesses their impact, and advocates for further change. Finds that native approaches emphasize tribal and family bodies for dispensing justice, healing the community as well as the individual, and diverting youth from crime by making other activities more interesting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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