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Publication Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 1998)(Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998-03-01) King, Rachel; Schafer, N. E.In the Spring 1998 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum, an assistant public defender who served from 1991 to 1994 in three jurisdictions in rural Alaska — Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Kotzebue — focuses on the situation of rural Alaska Natives to describe how several structural aspects of the criminal justice may contribute to the overrepresentation of Alaska Natives in the Alaska prison system. The second phase of a Justice Center study of racial disproportionality in juvenile referrals in Alaska looks at 33 youth who had five or more referrals, examining individual criminal histories and family backgrounds as revealed in the files, and notes noted that juveniles from rural communities sometimes received referrals for behavior that would have been handled informally in urban settings.Publication Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1998)(Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998-06-01) Moras, Antonia; Bureau of Justice StatisticsPublication Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 1998)(Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998-09-01) UAA Justice Center; Bureau of Justice StatisticsA study of Alaska prisoners, described in the Fall 1998 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum, finds that long-term inmates in Alaska prisons show evidence of having experienced a high rate of abuse during their childhoods; the study examined the issue of a “cycle of violence” and sought out correlates of abuse which may have an impact on offense patterns or inmate behavior. A Bureau of Justice Statistics report finds that the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of federal or state correctional systems grew 5.2 percent during 1997. An Alaska Judicial Council study of felony probation revocation cases found that the reasons for revocation of probation status for Alaska Natives did not differ from those underlying revocation for non-Native offenders, but did find some difference by ethnicity for the original conditions of probation.Publication Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 1999)(Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-01-01) UAA Justice Center; Bureau of Justice StatisticsThe Winter 1999 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents Alaska and U.S. figures on correctional populations over an eleven-year period from 1988 to 1998, during which time Alaska's prison population grew by 57 percent and its rate of incarceration grew by 18 percent, while the overall state population grew by only 16 percent. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that over 570,000 of the nation's prisoners (51%) reported the use of alcohol or drugs while committing their offense. Uniform Crime Reports statistics show that the overall rate of reported crime in Alaska grew by 7 percent from 1988 through 1997.