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                            Library & Multimedia
 Strengthening and Rebuilding Tribal Justice Systems: Learning From History and Looking Towards the Future, Executive Summary
NCJ Number
              210892

Author(s)
          Stephen Brimley;
                        Carrie Garrow;
                        Miriam Jorgensen;
                        Stewart Wakeling
Date Published

March 2005
Length
              11 pages
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              This is the executive summary of a process evaluation of the Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement (CIRCLE) Project, which provided incentives and opportunities for Indian tribes to improve their justice system components.
Abstract
              CIRCLE, which began in 1998, involves a partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, and Pueblo of Zuni for the purpose of strengthening those tribes' justice systems. USDOJ is to provide streamlined and coordinated Federal funding for tribal justice functions. Evaluation of the CIRCLE Project was conducted in two phases. The first phase was an 18-month "process" phase, which is the subject of this report. The second phase will be the "outcomes" phase, which will be the subject of a separate report. An important goal of the process evaluation was to determine whether CIRCLE's design was useful to tribes in their efforts to strengthen their justice systems. Site-based interviews and observations focused on two working-group products that provided support for the efforts of tribal partners: the Federal partners' work in streamlining and coordinating funding, as well as improved communication and cooperation among the Federal partners and between the Federal partners and the tribes. The process used the concept of nation-building to guide the initiative's goals, plans, and implementation. This process focused on tailoring tribal strategies to tribal cultural values. Another focus of the process evaluation was the sustainability of improvements in the face of fiscal, political and other challenges over an extended period of time. The process evaluation determined that streamlined USDOJ funding was used by the tribes to assess current conditions and begin designing improvements for their justice systems.
      
  
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        Eval of Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community & LE
    
  
  
Date Published: March 1, 2005
    
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