Citation

Wood DS. Deviant Behav. 2017; 38(12): 1419-1438.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01639625.2016.1257883

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Alaska's rape rate perennially exceeds that of all other states. This study considers Alaska's socioeconomic extremes--its frontier demography, its externally dependent resource economy, and its military presence--as explanations for inter-state variations of sexual violence. Robust regression procedures that accommodate extreme values were used to account for the effects of measures capturing Alaska's unique socioeconomic qualities on state-level rape rates. The results showing that other economically dependent states with frontier demographic structures also report elevated rape rates indicate that despite its endemic levels of sexual violence, Alaska is not an aberration but is instead the worst case possible.

Language: en