Alaska Justice Forum

• Main Authors: Riley, John, UAA Justice Center
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 1999
• Subjects: Alaska Judicial Council; assault; book review; correctional populations; corrections; courts; crime; domestic violence; firearms; homicide; intimate partner violence (IPV); Palmer; Alaska; probation; robbery; violence; weapons; Riley; Alaska Justice Forum
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3253

The Summer 1999 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum opens with an article presenting figures on the use of firearms in the commission of violent crimes in Alaska and in the U.S. as a whole from 1980 to 1997. A recent book on the growth of mass incarceration is reviewed. Major findings from an Alaska J...