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
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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.
Contact Us
Have questions? Please feel free to contact us via email: uaa_ajic@alaska.edu
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.
Kimberly Russell was raised in Anchorage and is a 2008 UAA Justice graduate who currently works at McLaughlin Youth Center as a Social Services Associate II.
Back in the early 1990s, newspaper headlines were fixated on Rodney King and O.J. Simpson-two of the most renowned court cases of David Campbell's generation. In his early 20s at the time, David remembers how current events and an Introduction to Justice course finally piqued his interest enough to settle on a major.
J.R. Dull has his dream job-working with kids in the Bristol Bay Region and helping them stay out of trouble, and if they don't, helping them get the services they need to get back on track. J.R. is the supervising juvenile probation officer in Dillingham, Alaska, and is responsible for all the juvenile cases in the 32 villages in the Bristol Bay Region, an area of about 40,000 square miles. Born in Dillingham and raised in the village of New Stuyahok on the Nushagak River, J.R. moved back to Dillingham for high school, then on to Anchorage to pursue a major in justice at UAA.