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- Diversion – as established in the Children Act 2001 – recognises young people’s capacity for change and is an opportunity to divert young people from the full criminal justice system and prevent them from incurring a criminal record, while still tackling offending.
Young people are ‘diverted’ away the criminal justice system with the aim of reducing future offending. Diversion can be initiated by the police at different stages of the pre-charge process, depending on the specific programme of intervention.
Oct 27, 2023 · 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 crime, cut...
- A Time of Rapid Brain Development
- How Do Other Countries Compare with Australia?
- No Benefits, only Losses
- So What Needs to Happen?
Neuroscience shows children and young people undergo rapid brain development. This can affect risk-taking, particular kinds of decision-making, and the ability to control impulses. As previous research has shown, many children and young people desist or stop involvement in crime and in effect “grow out” or “age out” of it as they get older. Reports...
Australia has a very low minimum age of criminal responsibilitycompared to other parts of the world. Children as young as ten can be searched, arrested, detained and held criminally responsible. Other countrieshave a much higher age of criminal responsibility. In Luxembourg and South America, it’s 18, Poland is 17 (with some exceptions from 15), Po...
There is no credible evidenceimprisoning children decreases levels of crime or improves community safety. Yet there is a wealth of established evidence demonstrating interactions with formal criminal justice institutions negatively impact children and are counterproductive. As the datademonstrates, children who are first sentenced between the ages ...
We need to change our mindset about children who come into conflict with the law. We need a complete overhaul in our systems, with decarceration not incarceration. Decarcerationis a process of reducing the number of people in prison by diverting people away from the criminal justice system and reducing the focus on prison as a solution to crime. In...
- Faith Gordon
Prosecuting young people or using out of court disposals for low-level and first time offending does not control crime. Research has consistently shown that deepening involvement in the justice system actually makes this group more likely to reoffend and comes with a range of limiting
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Jul 16, 2021 · Why young adults? The review focuses on young adults for two main reasons. Firstly, this age group are most likely to be in contact with the criminal justice system. Young adults, aged 18-25, represent 10% of the UK population, but over 30% of all police cases.
Dec 1, 2022 · The research findings suggest that both the education and youth justice systems in England and Wales are disabling and criminalising through processes that, often unintentionally; label, stigmatise, isolate, neglect and harm neurodivergent children.
Feb 3, 2020 · We identify children and young people who can be diverted from formal legal action and help avoid the stigma of a criminal record through intervention at an early stage. These young people are then supported to steer them away from further trouble.
