Inventing the savage
Subtitle: the social construction of Native American criminality
By: by Luana Ross.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Indian prisoners -- Montana.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Montana.; Women prisoners -- Montana.; Indian women -- Montana -- Social conditions.; Racism -- Montana.
Description: In this pathfinding study, Ross draws upon the life histories of imprisoned Native American women to demonstrate how race/ethnicity, gender, and class contribute to the criminalizing of various behaviors and subsequent incarceration rates. Drawing on the Native women's own words, she reveals the violence in their lives prior to incarceration, their respective responses to it, and how those responses affect their eventual criminalization and imprisonment.

Comparisons with the experiences of white women in the same prison underline the significant role of race in determining women's experiences within the criminal justice system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.