YAQUIx A Native American Indian Cultural View of Identity Power & Evil

by Julie C. Abril

YAQUIx (Yaqui Woman) provides an alternative, Native American Indian culturally-based theoretical perspective for violence and crime causation. The theory proposed is one based on Bad Spirits which influence deleterious human behavior (crime). This particular theoretical perspective of violence is the core foundation of the earliest thoughts on criminal behavior. Indeed, the establishment of penitentiaries (prisons) occurred because it was thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363986073X
• ISBN13: 9783639860733
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"