Alaska Justice Forum

• Main Authors: Morrow, Phyllis, Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 1993
• Subjects: Alaska Natives; Bethel; Alaska; bush justice; corrections; courts; jails; language interpretation; legal anthropology; legal interpretation; rural justice; Morrow; Yup'ik; Alaska Justice Forum
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3277

The Summer 1993 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum features an examination, based on courtroom observation, of cultural and linguistic factors that result in miscommunication between English speakers and native Yup'ik speakers in legal and justice contexts. A second article describes findings fr...