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?

In the federal court system of the United States, the power to pardon is held by the __________.

Excessive paperwork, lack of time to accomplish the job, and role ambiguity are three factors that lead to high ____________ in the job of probation and parole officer.