Strengthening and Rebuilding Tribal Justice Systems: Learning from History and Looking Towards the Future. Executive Summary

摘要

In 1998, several agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) initiated a partnership with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, and Pueblo of Zuni to strengthen those tribes justice systems. Through this initiative, called the Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement (CIRCLE) Project, USDOJ provided incentives and opportunities (in particular, streamlined and coordinated federal funding for justice functions) that helped the tribes consider how their justice systems' individual components might better work together to address pressing crime and social problems. With this assistance, the tribes challenge shifted away from how they might fund specific justice programs to how they might leverage an array of justice (and related program) resources to address tribe-specific, crime-related goals.