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Officials eye new ways to add to village safety officers

...It's a request he has made - and legislators have granted - every year since 2010.Research from the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center has found that villages with an officer or local paraprofessional police presence had rates of serious...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-02-12/officials-eye-new-ways-add-village-safe
State
Study finds 44 percent of Kodiak women abused

...is a big problem in Kodiak Island Borough, according to a new survey.The survey conducted by the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center found that 38 percent of Kodiak women have experienced intimate partner violence and 23 percent have...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-07/study-finds-44-percent-kodiak-women-abu
State
Support AWARE's drive to build transitional housing

...abuse is an imperative.The Alaska Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault collaborated with the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center to compile some data on the extent of the problem across the Last Frontier. Although a few years old...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-10-27/support-awares-drive-build-transition
Opinion
Alaska editorial: This must change

...Alaska's chronic epidemic of sexual assault and domestic violence. A survey of Alaska women by the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center tells us the epidemic is worse than we thought. The survey found more than half the women contacted...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101110/opi_718909918.shtml
Opinion
Gov: Businesses can play role in fighting violence

...considered at epidemic levels - could be stopped within a generation. A survey recently released by the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center found that nearly 60 percent of women asked said they had been sexually or physically assaulted or...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/021511/sta_785800281.shtml
News
Poll finds baseline stats for domestic violence in Alaska

...some point during their lives. But it has holes: The survey of 871 women, being released by the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center, only involved English-speaking adults, with at least one phone in their household. The report...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012511/sta_775819320.shtml
News
Alaska crime victims isolated

Susan Jones knew she had to leave her southeast Alaska village when she came home to find her husband clutching his loaded rifle.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110705/sta_20051107008.shtml
News
Gangs blamed for Alaska crime spike

...though murder, rape and robbery are down for the state. Brad Myrstol, research associate at the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center, said it is important to consider long-term trends when looking at the FBI report. "Crime has...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111705/sta_20051117011.shtml
News
Downtown Anchorage march and rally held to support victims of rape and sexual assault

...threatened or physically harmed by a partner during their lifetime. About 37 percent of women polled said they'd been sexually victimized at some point during their lives, according to the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center survey.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-04-23/downtown-anchorage-march-and-rally-held
State
Victimization information to be presented

On Monday, the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center will release the 2010 Alaska Victimization Survey to legislators in Juneau and the public is invited to attend. The presentation...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012311/nei_774781173.shtml
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