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- diversion, any of a variety of programs that implement strategies seeking to avoid the formal processing of an offender by the criminal justice system.
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Diversion, any of a variety of programs that implement strategies seeking to avoid the formal processing of an offender by the criminal justice system. Although those strategies, referred to collectively as diversion, take many forms, a typical diversion program results in a person who has been.
Oct 27, 2023 · Diversion is a term that can refer to several different concepts and has no fixed meaning in the law in England and Wales. The two most common concepts are diversion from court and diversion...
Feb 3, 2020 · There are a number of sources which helpfully map out aspects of the history of diversion in youth justice (Mays, 1965; Shore, 1999; Smith, 2018), and these tend to suggest a process of progressive recognition, formalisation and incorporation within the criminal justice system.
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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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There are a number of sources which helpfully map out aspects of the history of diversion in youth justice (Mays, 1965; Shore, 1999; Smith, 2018), and these tend to suggest a process of progressive recognition, formalisation and incorporation within the criminal justice sys-tem.
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.
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.