Restorative Justice Emphasizes

question 10

Multiple Choice

Restorative justice emphasizes

• A)the need for an adversarial criminal justice system.
• B)crime prevention by repairing the victim-offender-community relation.
• C)"getting tough on crime" by mandatory punishments.
• D)federal aid enabling local communities to hire more police.

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Definitions:

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute successes to personal abilities and failures to external factors.

Defensive Attribution

A psychological process by which individuals assign causes to behaviors or outcomes in a way that defends their self-esteem.

Stereotype

Widely held but fixed and oversimplified images or ideas of a particular type of person or thing, which can often lead to prejudiced attitudes or behaviors.