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Overview
- NCJJ State Juvenile Justice Profiles: Alaska. Descriptive information and analysis regarding on Alaska's juvenile justice system from the National Center for Juvenile Justice.
Alaska government agencies
- Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). DJJ was created as a new division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) in 1999 from the former Youth Corrections section of the Division of Family and Youth Services. DJJ administers juvenile probation services, juvenile detention facilities, juvenile training schools, and juvenile justice state and federal grant programs.
- Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS). DFYS is charged with protecting children at risk of abuse and neglect; a division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS).
- Alaska Governor's Children's Cabinet
- Alaska Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Established in 1993, this board comprises 15 to 33 officals and private citizens, who assist the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services in strengthening and improving the social services and juvenile justice systems at all levels.
Alaska Governor's
Conference on Youth and Justice
The Governor's Conference
on Youth and Justice was appointed in November 1995 by Governor
Tony Knowles to address the challenges of youth and justice in
Alaska through (1) a comprehensive review of the juvenile code;
(2) recommendations on how to improve the systems in Alaska that
serve children and youth; and (3) development of plans to help
prevent youth from entering the justice system. The Conference
was chaired by co-chaired by Attorney General Bruce Botelho and
Health and Social Services Commissioner Karen Perdue, and comprised
about 90 members. The Conference's 507-page report, including
over 100 recommendations, were presented to the Governor in November
1996.
- Knowles announced conference on youth and justice: November event will focus on juvenile offenders, youth at risk, prevention ideas. Press release, October 2, 1995.
- Governor's Conference on Youth and Justice Plans Statewide Radio Call-in Program. Press release, July 26, 1996.
- "Knowles' Youth & Justice Conference releases report: Focus is on preventing juvenile crime, dealing swiftly with offenders". Press release, November 4, 1996.
- Governor's Conference on Youth and Justice (GCYJ) Grant Program. A grant offering program through the Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice intended for community-based projects consistent with the goals of the Conference's recommendations.
Spreadsheet
of GCYJ recommendations. Status of Conference recommendations
as of March 2000.
Nonprofits
- Alaska Youth & Parent Foundation (AYPF). Nonprofit advocating for and fostering the safety and well-being of youth at risk so that they may lead productive lives. AYPF offers an electronic monitoring program for youthful offenders as an alternative to incarceration, emergency shelters for runaway and homeless youth, and drug abuse prevention.
- Kids Are People. A Wasilla-based nonprofit charity providing prevention, intervention, and services to address the needs of youth at risk and their families in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
- United Youth Courts of Alaska (UYCA) provides support and assistance to youth courts in 14 Alaska communities— Kotzebue, Nome, Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Mat-Su, Anchorage, Kenai/Homer, Kodiak, Valdez, Juneau, Kake, Sitka, Wrangell, and Ketchikan.
Juvenile Corrections in Alaska
Justice Center
articles & reports
(in reverse chronological
order)
- Rosay, André B. and Snodgrass, G. Matthew. (Fall 2007). "Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Fairbanks North Star Borough." Alaska Justice Forum 24(3): 3–4. See also "Supplementary Maps" (web only).
- Snodgrass, G. Matthew and Rosay, André B. (2007). Quantitative Analysis of Disparities in Juvenile Delinquency Referrals to the Fairbanks North Star Borough, FY2005-06. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.
- Rosay, André and Everett, Ronald. (2006). Quantitative Analysis of Disparities in Juvenile Delinquency Referrals. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.
- Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Summer 2006). "Minority Referrals to the Division of Juvenile Justice." Alaska Justice Forum 23(2): 1, 4-8.
- Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Summer 2006). "Juvenile Arrest Figures." Alaska Justice Forum 23(2): 2-3.
- Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Summer 2006). "Juvenile Detention in Alaska." Alaska Justice Forum 23(2): 3.
- Rosay, André and Everett, Ronald. (10 Jun 2006). "Disproportionate Minority Contact in Anchorage" (slide presentation). Slide presentation presented to the Anchorage Forum on Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) with the Juvenile Justice System, Anchorage, AK.
- Rosay, André and Chamard, Sharon. (Spring 2005). "Youth Violence in Anchorage." Alaska Justice Forum 22(1): 1, 8-10.
- Rosay, André. (Fall 2004). "Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers in Alaska Justice Agencies." Alaska Justice Forum 21(3): 6-7.
- Rosay, André. (2004). Volunteer Recruitment and Sustainability Assessment: United Youth Courts of Alaska—Final Report. Report prepared for United Youth Courts of Alaska. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.
- "Alaska Juvenile Arrest Figures for 2000". Alaska Justice Forum 19(1), Spring 2002.
- "Alaska Juveniles in the Adult System". Alaska Justice Forum 19(1), Spring 2002.
- "Alaska Juvenile Arrests: Basic Figures". Alaska Justice Forum 14(4), Winter 1998. Includes a sidebar story on Alaska juveniles waived into the adult system.
- "Juvenile Records in Alaska". Alaska Justice Forum 14(4), Winter 1998. Includes a sidebar story on Alaska juveniles waived into the adult system.
- "The Devil Made Me Do It: Adolescent Attraction to Satanism" by Lawrence C. Trostle & Melissa S. Green. In Sharon Araji, ed., Society: An Alaskan Perspective. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 1994, pp. 201-218.
- "Victim-Offender Mediation in Alaska" by Patrick Cunningham and Lawrence C. Trostle. Alaska Justice Forum 11(2), Summer 1994.