Felony Level Sex Offenses 2018 Crime in Alaska Supplemental Report Prepared By: Christen L. Spears Division of Statewide Services Criminal Records & Identification Bureau Lisa Purinton, Bureau Chief Table of Contents Program Overview .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 2018 Statewide Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 4 Northern Alaska ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Western Alaska ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Southcentral Alaska ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 Southeast Alaska ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Anchorage Alaska................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Specialized State Agencies ................................................................................................................................................ 10 Rate of Incidents ................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Reported Victim Demographics ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Reported Suspect Demographics ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Population Comparison ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 Reported Victim Suspect Racial Comparison .................................................................................................................... 15 Victims 0-10 Years Old ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 Victims 11-17 Years Old ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 Victims 18+ Years Old ........................................................................................................................................................ 18 Reported Supplemental Data ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Reported Statutory Offenses .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Sexual Abuse of a Minor ............................................................................................................................................. 20 Child Pornography ....................................................................................................................................................... 20 Prostitution & Sex Trafficking ..................................................................................................................................... 20 Sexual Assault ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 2 2018 FELONY LEVEL SEX OFFENSES Program Overview The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is tasked with captured through the UCR program such as victim and collecting information on felony level sex offenses suspect demographic information, victim and suspect reported to state and local law enforcement agencies, relationship information, weapon type, and location of as defined by Alaska Statute (AS) 12.63.100, and as the assault. Noting this difference in data collection required by AS 12.62.130. This is a required reporting methodology, the most recent UCR figures reported in program for state and local law enforcement agencies the 2018 Crime in Alaska publication show a 10.7% and is in addition to the requirements for Uniform percent increase in rape offenses reported to law Crime Reporting (UCR). enforcement from 2017 to 2018. In 2009, the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee The Felony Sex Offense (FSO) database is a repository tasked the legislature to fund a victimization survey to maintained by DPS for state and local law enforcement determine the rate of both reported and unreported agencies to record reports of felony level sex offenses sexual assaults in Alaska. The Alaska Victimization within their jurisdiction based on State of Alaska Survey (AVS) is conducted by the University of Alaska statutes. Data elements collected include victim and Anchorage Justice Center, with oversight by the Council suspect demographics, victim/suspect relationships, on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA), a offense location, weapon type used, and the council within DPS. The survey is modeled after the associated statute violation. national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Caution should be exercised in comparing data Control and Prevention. The AVS is comprised of a between Felony Sex Offense statistics, Uniform Crime telephone survey of adult women aged 18 and over; Reporting, and the Alaska Victimization Survey; they the UCR program and the FSO database collect all are separate data collection efforts with different offense and incident information reported to law methodologies in aggregating incidents, offenses, and enforcement. Noting this difference in data collection victims. methodology, the most recent AVS results from 2015 show a decline in intimate partner and sexual violence The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a since 2010. nationwide cooperative effort by federal, state, city, county and tribal law enforcement agencies to report It is important to note the incidents reported to the FSO data on crimes reported in their jurisdiction. The program were documented at the initial reporting stage national program is managed and maintained by the of the investigation by law enforcement. Agencies are Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Since June of instructed to report information when a felony level sex 1982, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) has offense becomes known to law enforcement. The FSO administered the UCR Program for the State of Alaska. database is not intended to track the life cycle of an The current UCR program data collection methodology incident—it is to provide insight into the volume and is focused on the number of times a person is type of sex offenses being reported to law victimized, while the FSO program focus is to collect enforcement. information about an incident. For example, a person Additionally, some data elements of a reportable sexually assaulted multiple times by a single offender incident are optional; not all incidents include location, would likely result in multiple rape offenses reported to weapon, relationship, or victim/suspect demographics. the UCR program, but the same situation would be A single incident may also involve multiple victims or reported in the FSO database as one incident with a offenders, as well as multiple statute violations. single victim and multiple statute violations reported. Additionally, the FSO database can capture data This is the fourth year that findings from this database elements for each reported sex offense not currently have been published. 3 FELONY SEX OFFENSE FINDINGS 2018 Statewide Summary 1762 1542 1475 1352 Statewide 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total Incidents 1352 1542 1475 1762 Victims Reported¹1 6482 1181 1498 1850 Suspects Reported¹ 691² 1007 1455 1789 Quick Facts > Reports of felony level sex offense incidents > Alaska Native females were reported to increased 19.5% in 2018 compared to 2017, have the highest victimization rate of any and the number of reported victims increased gender or racial group, comprising 43.7% of 23.5%. all reported victims. > The region of Western Alaska reported the > The median age of female victims was 17, highest rate of felony level sex offense while the most common age was 15. incidents statewide, while Southeast Alaska > The median age of male victims was 12, reported the lowest rate. while the most common age was 4. > Over 55% of all reported victims were >In the reported relationships between the juveniles. victims and suspects, less than 7% identified > Victims under the age of 11 most often the suspect as a stranger. With victims under reported being assaulted by a parent. 11 years old, less than 2% of the relationships involved a stranger. 1 Not all reported incidents included victim demographics. Some incidents involve multiple victims and/or multiple suspects. 2 In 2015, the Anchorage Police Department reported only the number of incidents with the corresponding statute