Title: Inventing the savage
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice, Criminal justice, Administration of, Racism, Social conditions, Indian prisoners, Indian women, Women prisoners, Indian women, north america, Montana, social conditions, Women, united states, social conditions
Places: Montana
LC classification: E78.M9 R67 1998