It is not just in Alaska. Rape of indigenous women is at far higher rates than other women, generally. I have heard figures that seem unbelievable. There is very little recourse for them. The majority of rapes are by non-native men.
A discussion of the problem in Montana in High Country News:
report by Amnesty International (.pdf)
https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/mazeofinjustice.pdf
Wow. So, the suggestion is that men target native women on reservations, because they know that they are outside the jurisdiction of any criminal justice system? The native system can’t prosecute because they are non-native, and the state can’t prosecute because it happened on a reservation? Sheeeet.
The map showing rape incidence per capita looks astonishingly similar to a map showing the population concentration of Native Americans (Alaska 1st, South Dakota 2nd, New Mexico 3rd, etc.):
It’s hard to see how any of the factors posited so far explain Cleveland, Minneapolis, Memphis, and the other really high numbers.
It’s not just rape: if this site is to be believed, Anchorage is a crime-ridden hell-hole. I’ve heard that some Alaskans jokingly refer to it as “Los Anchorage.”
The FBI had a supplement to the UCR about rape in Alaska that said most suspects in rape of Eskimo women are also Eskimos. I can’t get the report to open so I don’t know the percentage. The report does say that the vast majority of offenders are known by the victim.
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Anchorage?
8% Native. With 8% Asian, 5% black. It’s a pretty diverse place.
50.8% male. Whether that’s statistically different from 50.0% is one thing, but it’s not a mining town bar.
Are these all things?
This would have been my answer.
Yikes. Looks like most crime rates have almost doubled since 2002. And population definitely hasn’t doubled. So, the question really isn’t rape, it’s crime in general and what’s happened in the last 20 years?
Crack? Meth? Opiates? Lots of crime is tied, one way or another, to illegal drug abuse.
Sadly, it’s often a family member.
Meth is a problem in Anchorage, as are opioids and other addictive substances. Many Native villages vote themselves dry and make it a serious crime to bring alcohol in or to make it on site, but it remains a problem. Alaska attracts a substantial number of end-of-the-roaders and people who think they can just show up and get a job. Unemployment is at 7% in Anchorage and much worse in smaller towns.