Consequently, those who look to these systems for different ways of addressing criminal justice are in some ways looking to traditional Africa. It is even possible for these cases to be diverted away from the criminal justice system altogether, leaving the offender with no criminal record for the offense. Because restorative justice is at the heart of Scandinavian rehabilitation models, there may be value in first examining how well that process addresses prisoners’ racial circumstances. He writes that the reform of Scandinavian prisons was possible because their criminal justice policy “rarely enters political debate.”Decisions about the criminal justice system are left to the professionals in the field, Larson writes. This should not stand in the way of developing a U.S. criminal justice system that is both humane and transformative.