Alaska Dispatch

According to a new study of 2007 FBI homicide data, the Violence Policy Center found that Alaska had the second highest rate of homicide of women in the U.S., at 2.44 per 100,000. Louisiana had the highest rate for that year, at 2.53 per 100,000. The center releases this study annually to raise awareness of domestic violence because women are far more likely to be killed by someone they know than by a stranger. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Read the study's press release stub here, and read the entire study here (.pdf).