A dvocates of restitution have long espoused accountability as a primary program goal. The same request was made of respondents to the 1991 survey. The results are displayed in Table 5 .
Some important differences emerge.
First, the relative importance of victim reparations and offender treatment reverses. By a substantial margin, the victim reparations category has replaced the offender treatment category for second place in order of importance. Second, the importance of offender accountability appears to have decreased slightly, from an average score of 9.7 in 1984 to an average of 8.7 in 1991. Third, the importance of punishment has increased over the years from an average score of 3.3 to 4.8. It should be noted that over the years, both the rate and severity of crime have increased, and populations in prisons and juvenile training schools have reached all-time highs.