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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.
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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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
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.
- Roger Smith
- 2021
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.
May 8, 2015 · A recent systematic review of 29 studies found that young people with a prior criminal record who were diverted from the criminal justice system to social work were less likely to reoffend compared to those who went to court.
