What if the American justice system dismantled its current trend of incapacitation through incarceration, and adopted sweeping restorative justice strategies? What would happen?
1. Begin by explaining incapacitation through incarceration
2. Next, explain restorative justice and the strategies associated with it.
1. Visit the National Criminal Justice Reference Service's website and review the information on restorative justice programs. Which of these programs do you think is the most effective?
Why?
3. Finally, explain your hypothesis as to what the impact of this change would do to crime, arrest rates, incarceration rates, and recidivism.
4. Be sure to include your citations.