Missouri’s Parallel Universe program was created to help offenders transition from the prison to the community by:

a. attempting to make the prison environment approximate life outside of prison
b. attempting to prepare inmates for community living by showing them multiple training videos and giving them written homework assignments
c. attempting to make community housing resemble prison life
d. attempting to give offenders more freedom by allowing them to live in the community during the day while returning to the prison at night


a. attempting to make the prison environment approximate life outside of prison

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Compared to its American incarnation, the Sicilian Mafia has a more dominant presence in politics and economics

a. True b. False

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A general continuum of correctional professionalism across the field in relation to pay, from most professionalized to least, would likely be ______.

a. jail, community corrections, public prisons b. community corrections, public prisons, jail c. public prisons, jail, community corrections d. community corrections, jail, public prisons

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The offender explains to the victim that he didn't consider that there was a person who suffered as a result of his vandalism? to him, it was "just a building," and "the company" would fix whatever damage he did. A restorative solution attempts to achieve all of the following except:

a. stigmatizing the offender so that his shame will deter him from re-offending. b. leading the offender to understand the harm suffered by the victim. c. forcing the offender to acknowledge his own responsibility. d. reducing the offender's sense that punishment for his actions is unfair.

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