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- Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service.
www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-criminol-061020-022236Models of Prosecutor-Led Diversion Programs in the United ...
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Nov 2, 2022 · Health, human services, legal, and criminal justice databases were searched for empirical research on police-initiated pre-arrest diversion of adults from 2000 to the present, resulting in 47 relevant studies for the review. The study designs, analyses, and findings are described.
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Oct 11, 2023 · In the ‘diversion from criminalisation’ schemes examined for this research project, police enforce the law to initiate diversion and lean on the threat of criminal sanctions to incentivise compliance.
Nov 2, 2022 · Abstract. Police-initiated diversion programs are an increasingly common intervention to prevent excessive arrests of vulnerable populations. This systematic literature review carefully...
Diversion as an option is popular among law enforcement officers, as it provides an option between ignoring youth engaged in minor wrongdoing and formally charging such youth with a crime.
- David B. Wilson, Iain Brennan, Ajima Olaghere
- 2018
Introduction. Point-of-arrest youth diversion gives young people the chance to avoid both formal criminal justice processing and a criminal record, in return for the completion of community-based interventions. Youth diversion is an increasingly well-embedded practice in England and Wales: research by the Centre for Justice Innovation in 2019 ...
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Dec 1, 2009 · This article is a review of the research literature conducted to determine whether the current evidence supports the use of diversion initiatives to reduce recidivism and to reduce incarceration among adults with serious mental illness with justice involvement.
Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service. These programs exist for both adult and juvenile offenders.
