New Student Scholarship on the Need for Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Indian Drug Offenses

Shivani Singh has published “The Need for Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Over Drug Crimes” in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.

An excerpt:

Limitations to Tribal criminal jurisdiction, especially over drug crimes, have ultimately contributed to “limited law enforcement; delayed prosecutions; too few prosecutions, and other prosecution inefficiencies” that have allowed non-Indian perpetrators to exploit a failing system and endanger vulnerable Tribal communities.