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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

    • Roger Smith
    • 2021
  4. 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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  5. 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 through the formal justice process.

  6. This chapter describes informal processing, diversion, and specialty courts, before discussing the potential benefits and risks to youth. Recommendations for practice, policy, and research are discussed. Keywords: juvenile justice, diversion, specialty courts, problem-solving courts, youth justice. Subject.

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  8. justice’ model of diversion must ground its arguments in principles of children’s rights and the values of inclusion and anti-oppressive practice. Keywords advocacy, children first, diversion, offender management, rights, targeted intervention Introduction: Diversion and Progressive Practice

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