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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.
Police-initiated diversion programmes provide an alternative to prosecution for young people who have previously had limited or no involvement with the criminal justice system. Young people are ‘diverted’ away the criminal justice system with the aim of reducing future offending.
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...
Research evidence strongly suggests that youth diversion can: > Reduce reofending: it is a vital tool in fulfilling the principal statutory aim of the youth justice system, i.e. to prevent ofending;5.
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- 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...
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It has been recognised that the 18-24 year age range is a key stage of development; the brain is still developing, independence is gained, socialising activity increases, and experimentation with drugs, alcohol and sexual relationships takes place.
Diversion from prosecution is a formal decision by the Procurator Fiscal. On receipt of a police report the Procurator Fiscal can choose to divert the young person to a local social work team or other service provider. The provider should have specific expertise in working with young people.
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.
