and Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Unit activities.
The most recent items are presented first.
- "Justice Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary": The Justice Center has completed its 25th year as a research, academic and public education institution (December 1, 2000).
- "Langworthy Accepts 14-Month NIJ Appointment": Dr. Robert Langworthy, Director of the Justice Center, has accepted a 14-month appointment at the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Nancy Schafer is Acting Director in his absence (August 11, 2000).
- "Scholarship Recipients Announced": Five Alaska Native students have received $5,000 scholarships for the 2000-2001 academic year through a gift from Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (August 8, 2000).
- "Turnover of VPSOs: Study Completed": A study of officer turnover in the Alaska Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) program has been completed by Dr. Darryl Wood (April 26, 2000).
- "Community Jails Consortium Holds Anchorage Workshop": Administrators of Alaska community jails meet in Anchorage under the auspices of the Statewide Community Jails Research Consortium (March 17, 1999).
- "Schafer Receives NIJ Grant to Initiate Statewide Community Jails Research Consortium": Dr. Nancy Schafer has received a $50,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to initiate a research consortium of Alaska's 15 community jails (December 9, 1998).
- "Justice Club Sponsors Human Rights Forum": "Bringing Human Rights Home" will focus on the topics of the death penalty, immigrant's rights, prisoner's rights and habeas corpus relief (November 2, 1998).
- "Rieger Receives NSF Grant to Study Indian Child Welfare in Kake": Professor Lisa Rieger has received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a pilot study examining the Kake Tlingit community's efforts to address child welfare (September 28, 1998).
- "Riley to Examine Careers in Corrections for Alaska Natives": Dr. John Riley will examine the attitudes of Alaska Natives towards careers within the correctional system (September 17, 1998).
- "Wood Receives NIJ Grant to Study VPSO Attrition": Dr. Darryl Wood has received a grant of $50,000 from the National Institute of Justice to study the issue of attrition within the Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) program (June 15, 1998).
- "Juvenile Referrals in Alaska Examined by Race": Release of the Justice Center report A Comparison by Race of Juvenile Referrals in Alaska: Phase II Report, which examines 112 individual files in an attempt to identify factors which might be associated with the decision to refer a child to the Alaska juvenile justice system (June 8, 1998).
- "New Criminal Justice Emphasis in MPA Program": Announcing the creation of a Criminal Justice emphasis in the Master of Public Administration program (April 8, 1998).
- "Research on Crime in Canadian Inuit Communities Basis for Doctorate": Darryl Wood, an assistant professor with the Justice Center, has received his doctorate from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His dissertation was based on research on violent crime in twelve Inuit communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic and may have implications for Alaska (October 6, 1997).
- "Disproportionate Referrals of Alaska Native and African American Youth": Release of the Justice Center report Disproportionate Representation of Minorities in the Alaska Juvenile Justice System, which finds that Alaska Native and African American youth are referred to the Division of Family and Youth Services in numbers disproportionate to their representation in the population as a whole (June 25, 1997).
- "Transforming the Police in South Africa": A summer course taught by Janine Rauch, Chief Director of Policy and National Crime Prevention Strategy for the Republic of South Africa, looks at police reform in South Africa after the dismantling of apartheid (June 16, 1997).
- "New Director Named": Dr. Robert Langworthy joins the Justice Center as its new Director (June 3, 1997).
- "Sex Offender Recidivism Study": Release by the Alaska Department of Corrections of the report Sex Offender Treatment Program: Initial Recidivism Study, a 4-year study completed by the Department of Corrections and the Justice Center's Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Unit (August 19, 1996).
- "Brady Bill Grant": Receipt of a $175,000 grant to examine retention of data on non-criminal groups falling under the provisions of the Brady firearm control law (June 26, 1996).
- "Public Safety in Village Alaska": Release of the report Public Safety and Policing in Alaska Native Villages (March 17, 1996).
- "Public Perceptions of Crime": Release of the Alaska Public Safety Statewide Survey report (January 23, 1996).
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