Alaska Justice Forum

• Main Authors: Marenin, Otwin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Barnes, Allan R., Criminal Justice Statistics Association
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 1991
• Subjects: Alaska Department of Public Safety; Alaska Natives; Alaska State Troopers; bush justice; crime; crime statistics; criminal case processing; criminal law; criminal offenders; legislation; Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS); paraprofessional police; rural justice; Village Public Safety Officers (VPSO); Athabascan; Alaska; Alaska Justice Forum
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3285

The Summer 1991 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents data from a study of crime in five unnamed Athabascan villages in central Alaska from 1985 through 1990; extracts from Village Public Safety Officer and Alaska State Trooper reports provide concrete details of individual incidents and a sense of context. The Offender-Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) program of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which tracks adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system through final disposition; OBTS data from eight U.S. states, including Alaska, indicate that for every 100 persons arrested for a felony in 1988, 81 were prosecuted, 59 were convicted, 39 were sentenced to incarceration, and 10 were committed to a state prison, usually for more than a year. Key provisions of the federal Violent Crime Control Act of 1991, awaiting final passage, are described. "Patterns of Reported Crime in Alaska Villages" by Otwin Marenin / "Tracking Offenders, 1988 (A BJS Report)" / "Violent Crime Control Act of 1991" by the Criminal Justice Statistics Association / "Alaska OBTS" by Allan R. Barnes