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Jan 23, 2024 · This chapter reviews the emergence and development of youth diversion and addresses the question of how we define and measure its achievements. Recurrent features of diversion are identified, such as the tension between minimum intervention and a preventive program–based approach.
Oct 27, 2023 · Youth diversion can reduce crime, cut costs, and lead to better outcomes for children. Diversion is a term that can refer to several different concepts and has no fixed meaning in the law in...
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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Feb 3, 2020 · These conclusions offer support for the overall argument that both the political sensitivities associated with young people’s problematic behaviour, and what might be termed the economics of law and order, are highly influential in shaping policy and practice in the field of diversion.
Abstract. This article draws on historical understandings and contemporary models of diversion in order to develop a critical framework and agenda for progressive practice.
Nov 21, 2014 · Drawing on interviews with youth justice practitioners at two sites in England, we argue this is overly simplistic, since the ‘interventionist diversion’ they describe reflects the continued influence of New Labour reforms, as well as older approaches.
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Diversion is not the same as community corrections – but it is presented in this chapter, as an action that effectively keeps a person in the community. Diversion is a process whereby an individual, at some stage, is diverted from continuing on in the formal justice process.