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- Diversion is a practice where a police officer, prosecutor, or judge provides an opportunity for an individual charged with a criminal offense to avoid a conviction either through a dismissal of the charge or by some alternative measure.
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Jul 24, 2020 · This article provides the first causal estimates on the popular, cost-saving practice of diversion in the criminal justice system, an intervention that provides offenders with a second chance to avoid a criminal record.
- Michael Mueller-Smith, Kevin T. Schnepel
- 2021
The Review of Economic Studies. 88 (2): 883-936. Abstract: This paper provides the first causal estimates on the popular, cost-saving practice of diversion in the criminal justice system, an intervention that provides offenders with a second chance to avoid a criminal record.
Feb 3, 2020 · By relying on the creation of ‘exceptions’, and implicitly deferring to the embedded logic of the justice system, targeted approaches effectively limit themselves and set clear boundaries to the scope of diversion.
- Roger Smith
- 2021
Feb 3, 2020 · This article raises four interrelated questions: what young people are to be 'diverted' from and to; whether young people are to be 'diverted' from the criminal justice system or from offending...
Jul 26, 2023 · Diversion in theory has taken many meanings. This special edition offers a variety of empirical and theoretical articles that attempt to provide clarity to an often implemented and understudied area of criminal justice and health care.
Jan 1, 2009 · the term “diversion” refers to formally acknowledged and organized efforts to utilize alternatives to initial or continued processing into the justice system. To qualify as diversion, such efforts must be undertaken prior to adjudication and after a legally prescribed action has occurred.
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 ...
