Is Alaska an Aberration or the Worst Case? A Robust Regression Approach to Understanding Inter-State Variations of Forcible Rape

Bibliographic Data

ID7745141
AuthorsDarryl S Wood (Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, USA, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume38
Issue12
Pages1419-1438
Publication date2017-12-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2016.1257883
OpenAlexW2562718050
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited84

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

Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Population · Sexual violence · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · State (computer science · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Demography · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Mathematics · Psychology

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