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Diversion programs allow criminal justice actors to send defendants out of the court system, compelling them instead to attend treatment programs, participate in educational opportunities, and/or perform community service. These programs exist for both adult and juvenile offenders.
By addressing the root causes of community instability—challenges such as food and housing insecurity, joblessness, lack of educational resources, and unmet mental health needs—diversion programs not only help improve long-term community safety and reduce crime but have also proven to be cost-efficient.
Feb 3, 2020 · Process rights can be pursued by means of active advocacy in pursuit of ‘minimum intervention’, in the form of diversion out of the justice system, and towards other extra-judicial models of intervention to resolve any problems associated with a reported offence.
- Roger Smith
- 2021
- What Is Diversion and Why Is It So Important?
- Why Are Disparities at Diversion So Severe?
- Conclusion
Diversion is a decision to address delinquent conduct without involving a young person formally in the court system. This can be accomplished in one of two ways. 1. Pre-arrest diversionoccurs when authorities make a decision not to involve police, not to make an arrest, or not refer a case to juvenile court. 2. Pre-court diversion, or informal proc...
Disparities in diversion often emerge from subjective biases. Clear criteria for making diversion decisions are seldom spelled out in state laws, juvenile court procedures or probation department policy manuals. Instead, with little oversight and few objective guidelines, diversion decisions are highly subjective, making this stage of the process e...
The diversion stage of the juvenile court process should be a top priority for youth justice reform. Advocates should push for and system leaders must take aggressive action to address racial and ethnic disparities in diversion. Combined, reforms to expand and improve the use of diversion offer perhaps the most important and promising avenue curren...
- Richard Mendel
Abstract. This article draws on historical understandings and contemporary models of diversion in order to develop a critical framework and agenda for progressive practice.
Mar 20, 2024 · Diversion is the decision to address a young person’s alleged misconduct outside of the formal justice system, either prior to an arrest being made or after referral to juvenile court on delinquency charges.
Jan 23, 2024 · Children should accordingly be diverted from both justice and welfare “systems” (Morris et al. 1980), rather than into stigmatizing intervention programs. Diversion in England and Wales came to be reset in the 1980s, typified by the informal model of diversion developed by the Northamptonshire Juvenile Liaison Bureaux.
