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Parole board hearings are tape-recorded and conducted in one of three ways: in person, via video teleconference, and by _________ only.

What is a parole board? What are its primary functions and responsibilities?

__________ requires that juvenile take responsibility for their actions and that the victim actually participates in the process of justice.

In Ohio and Oregon, expungement is

Reparation boards clarify how the offender will repair the harm done, and they

How can restorative justice methods be measured for effectiveness?

You are a legislator whose pet issue is freedom of information. However, you also understand that it might be unfair in the age of information to make it easy to discover the worst moment of any citizen’s life, a moment that might define them forever. Are there certain convictions that should never be sealed or expunged? Should an offender always be identifiable by the worst thing he or she did? Why or why not?

Since the 1970s, there has been a move toward the use of __________ guidelines in the release decisions of parole boards.

In addition to educational requirements for officers, some jurisdictions may also require psychological evaluations, weapons qualification, and a __________ test.

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.”