Welcome to the AJiC web page – your primary conduit to learn about the center’s crime and justice research, both past and present. AJiC’s research publications are always freely available to the public, and accessible on our ScholarWorks@UA website.AJiC publishes new research reports, research briefs, fact sheets and data visualizations on a regular basis, and a few of the center’s most recent research publications are highlighted below. Alternatively, a great way to keep current with AJiC’s research activities is to subscribe to our quarterly newsletter and have our most current publications delivered directly to your email inbox!
AJiC is the acronym for the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Justice Center’s research center, the Alaska Justice Information Center. Since 1986, Alaska’s federally designated statistical analysis center (SAC) has been housed in the UAA Justice Center. In its role as Alaska’s SAC, AJiC assists Alaska justice agencies and organizations with the development, implementation, and evaluation of justice programs and policies by collecting and analyzing Alaska-specific crime and justice statistics. AJiC also pursues SAC-specific funding opportunities provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics for special projects and research initiatives to advance criminal justice policy and practice in the state. There are currently 53 SACs located in the United States and its territories.
AJiC is a member of the Justice Information Resource Network (JIRN), a national nonprofit organization and resource center for statistical analysis centers, criminological researchers, justice data analysts, and justice practitioners.
Have questions? Please feel free to contact us via email: uaa_ajic@alaska.edu
NEWS & Stories
UAA Justice Center Professor, Sharon Chamard provides expertise on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), emphasizing the importance of design elements like natural surveillance, access control, and maintenance in creating safer communities.
UAA’s Alaska Justice Information Center researcher, Rus’sel Sampson is quoted in an Alaska Beacon article about merit-based Alaska Performance Scholarships.
The Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS) released a new report about the health of women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Physical violence is a part of IPV, but it also includes things like controlling behaviors, threats of harm, and inflicting harm against people and things an intimate partner cares about. Dr. Ingrid Johnson with AVS told the Alaska Beacon these sorts of behaviors can have a lasting impact.
This year's annual Crime in Alaska report was recently released. Brad Myrstol, Justice Center Professor and Alaska Justice Information Center Director, discussed the data compiled from police agencies across the state with Anchorage Daily News.
UAA Justice Center Professor and Alaska Justice Information Center Director, Brad Myrstol, spoke with KNBA about the disproportionally high number of Alaska Native and American Indian inmates in the Alaskan and U.S. prison system.
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Email: uaa_ajic@alaska.edu
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