You have just gotten back from a tour of the restorative justice systems of New Zeeland and Australia. Your college-age daughter, who is about to study law, is eager to know how each of them compare to those of the United States. What will you tell her? She wants to know if you believe there is a better system for Americans than the current one we have.

Unpaid service to the public to compensate for harm done by the offense of conviction is_____________.

Compare and contrast victim–offender mediation (VOM) with reparation boards.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three primary ways an inmate can prepare for successful reentry?

Those permanently ineligible for parole release include offenders on death row, offenders serving life without parole, and some ________ offenders sentenced under statutes such as “three strikes.”

__________ is the specialized and standardized training that probation/parole or police officers must go through prior to carrying a firearm on the job.

Community corrections supervision attends to two major groups of offenders: those sentenced to community corrections (e.g., probationers) and

For the most serious and violent juvenile cases, all states have provisions for the ______________ of jurisdiction from juvenile courts to adult courts.

Pardons are categorized into two types: absolute pardons and conditional pardons.

You are responsible for maintaining the records for a busy urban police department. You are constantly inundated with requests for information. What are the ethical problems with giving out information to anyone who asks for it? What are the responsibilities you feel? Do you feel it is important for anyone’s criminal past to be public knowledge? Why or why not?