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Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns (phys.org)
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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

If anyone didn't know, Alaska has the highest rate of sexual violence in the US.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wonder if this is an effect of isolation?

I'm curious what sort of environmental factors influence this sort of behavior.

[–] bizarrocullen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that there's only 700,000 people in Alaska. 14 cases are gonna show up on the national scale.

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