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​Crime rates are the lowest they have been in a generation.

Research has shown that, when compared with traditional criminal justice, restorative justice programs result in greater                     for both victims and offenders.​

Reintegration is the solution sought in the problem-solving philosophy of community justice.​

             seeks to re-establish victim, offender, and community to a level of functioning that existed before the criminal event.​

​The length of an inmate’s prison stay has nearly tripled over the last 30 years.

Citizens and victims are involved in sentencing decisions to increase their confidence in the wisdom of the sanctions.​

Victimization rates are higher for:​

​Although Florida is known as the “death penalty capital of the country,” the overall percentage of murderers sentenced to death in Florida is actually lower that it is in other surrounding states.

Identifying different areas where crime is most concentrated is known as:​

​The case law since Furman indicates capital punishment is legal as long as it is imposed fairly.