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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 · Background. There is a strong evidence base that youth diversion is a better way of addressing low-level criminal behaviour than formal criminal justice processing. Youth diversion can reduce...
Nov 21, 2023 · Diversion refers to a substitute procedure in a criminal case in which a deal occurs between the prosecutor and defendant that interrupts the prosecution. In this instance, the prosecutor...
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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- 2021
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.
This article takes a closer look at the key justice system decision points at which diversion can take place, the purpose of diversion at each point, the decision-makers, and examples of diversion options.
