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Justice alumnus Alexander Choi graduates from APD 21-1 Police Academy

 |  Anchorage Police Department  | 

When alumnus Alexander Choi graduated from the Justice Center with a BA in Justice in Fall 2020, we asked him what's next. Short and sweet, he said, "Joining the Anchorage Police Department."

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CSI: UAA

 |  University of Alaska Anchorage  | 

To students in UAA Justice Center instructor Glen Klinkhart’s Criminal Investigation course, the end of the semester is, quite literally, murder. For his lab practicum, Klinkhart—a homicide detective, true crime author, and computer forensics expert—stages the scene of his own murder in a UAA lecture hall and challenges the budding investigators in his class to solve the crime.

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Justice Center's Troy Payne leads new virtual conference with international reach

 |  Ahliil Saitanan  | 

Dr. Troy C. Payne, an associate professor in the Justice Center, recently was part of a group of professors from various higher-learning institutions that led CrimCon­—short for Criminology Consortium, a nonprofit corporation—an academic criminology and criminal justice conference held virtually from Nov. 18 to 20.

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Justice Center Develops Data Tool Tracking Intimate Partner Violence

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

The UAA Justice Center has developed a new data tool to visualize data about intimate partner violence in Alaska.

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Justice Center Publishes Pioneering Homicide Report

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

The UAA Justice Center has published a pioneering report on homicide in Alaska, gathering and analyzing over 40 years of data.