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Alumna April Stone: Up For Every Challenge

 |  Melissa Green  |  ,

We sat down to talk with UAA Justice Center alumna April Stone about what it’s like to be a nontraditional student pursuing a law career.

SAKI research faces facing each other, in the shape of butterfly wings Read More

Dr. Johnson seeks participants for study to improve sexual assault reporting system

 |  Melissa Green  |  , ,

KTVA Channel 11 News in Anchorage and the Anchorage Press reported this week on the Alaska Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) research study being conducted by Dr. Ingrid Johnson of the UAA Justice Center.

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AJiC Fact Sheet on property crime focuses on motor vehicle theft

 |  Melissa Green  |  , ,

The January 2019 issue of the Alaska Justice Information Center Fact Sheet, "Property Crime in Alaska 1985–2017," describes Alaska property crime trends from 1985 through 2017, with a focus on motor vehicle theft rate trends.

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How UAA’s Justice Information Center is using data to help policymakers

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

Former Governor Sean Parnell was launching his Choose Respect Initiative, a campaign to end the epidemic of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse in the state. His administration tapped the University of Alaska Anchorage's Justice Center to help provide research and data to measure the effectiveness of the campaign.

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The importance of "time" in analysis

 |  Brad Myrstol  | 

This short video is intended to help everyday people interpret basic crime statistics.