The Need To Preserve And Expand Tribal VAWA Jurisdiction

Law360, New York (March 7, 2017, 11:00 AM EST) -- March 7, 2017, marks two years since Indian tribes could elect to exercise criminal jurisdiction over certain non-Indians for domestic or dating violence offenses. Although some claimed that non-Indian violence against Native women was not truly a problem and, therefore, tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians was not necessary, implementation of this jurisdiction has definitively shown: that is a problem and that tribes can — and should — have authority to prosecute these offenders....

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