Are American Indians more often victims of crime than members of other ethnic and racial groups?
July 29, 2008, 12:08 am
Filed under: Events, Laws & Policies, NWSN, Rural, Safe place, Social change, Tribal, WWWAR | Tags: Domestic Violence, South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Se, Violence against native women
Filed under: Events, Laws & Policies, NWSN, Rural, Safe place, Social change, Tribal, WWWAR | Tags: Domestic Violence, South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Se, Violence against native women
Goldberg and Washburn: Lies, damn lies, and crime statistics
Posted: July 25, 2008 – Indian Country Today
By Carole Goldberg and Kevin Washburn
Are American Indians more often victims of crime than members of other ethnic and racial groups? Are most of the offenses committed against them committed by non-Indians, as opposed to members of their own group? Ever since the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics began issuing reports on this subject in 2000, the clear answer to both of those questions has seemed to be ”yes.”
Now the South Dakota attorney general and researchers at the University of South Dakota have challenged that conclusion, issuing a report that focuses on only one state but questions the Indian data nationally. Their challenge to the federal data is much too quick to dismiss the BJS findings.
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