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- Enter Diversion, a juvenile justice approach that addresses delinquent conduct without formally involving a young person in the court system. Pre-arrest diversion and pre-court diversion can be powerful options for reducing racial and ethnic disparities and improving outcomes in our nation’s youth justice systems.
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Dec 10, 2020 · By embracing changes in eligibility standards away from prior record constraints, diversion programs would have the opportunity to begin counterbalancing the racially disparate trends that plague our criminal justice system.
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Mar 7, 2023 · Diversion programs can address racial disparities by increasing access and eliminating collateral consequences. The research is clear: Diversion alone isn’t enough to address the harms of racialized mass criminalization.
Introduction. Point-of-arrest youth diversion gives young people the chance to avoid both formal criminal justice processing and a criminal record, in return for the completion of community-based interventions.
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Doing what you say, saying what you do. Trust involves expecting someone to behave with good intentions and with consistency. As a result, it is particularly damaging to be given concrete assurances of that behaviour – that your solicitor will be representing you throughout, for example, or that you will receive resettlement support upon release fr...
52. Our research and engagement has highlighted the widespread misconceptions about GRT communities, and for our purposes, the common association between GRT people and criminal activity. A key aim of our work has therefore been to improve awareness that ‘Gypsy, Roma and Traveller’ signifies a range of races and ethnicities on the same terms as oth...
103. David Lammy highlighted that the ‘upstream’ factors leading to crime are also disproportional. YJB’s Journey of the Child demonstrates that from early years through to adult life, there is evidence that children from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds fare worse than the general population. Disproportionality is evident in multiple a...
Essex Youth Offending Service (YOS) has undertaken a comprehensive forensic analysis of current offending patterns, profiles of children and young people, and their desistance needs, which identified issues of disproportionality within wider aspects of the Youth Justice System. A range of actions has been taken in response, including a presentation...
Community Conversations are part of the CPS’ commitment to increase public confidence in the prosecution process. A community conversation is a dialogue between senior leaders in CPS Areas with members of ‘seldom heard’1 communities. Community Conversations provide an opportunity for members of communities to engage with the CPS, and feel assured t...
176. The Ministry of Justice has produced a four-part guide to support defendants as they move through the Criminal Justice System from charge to case completion. The guides are clear, accessible and designed to be understood by all defendants and are now available online and in Courts. They explain common legal terms; flag available legal advice; ...
Recommendation 1: A cross-CJS approach should be agreed to record data on ethnicity. This should enable more scrutiny in the future, whilst reducing inefficiencies that can come from collecting the same data twice. This more consistent approach should see the CPS and the Courts collect data on religion so that the treatment and outcomes of differen...
Recommendation 9: The Home Office, the MoJ and the Legal Aid Agency should work with the Law Society and Bar Council to experiment with different approaches to explaining legal rights and options to defendants. These different approaches could include, for example, a role for community intermediaries when suspects are first received in custody, giv...
Recommendation 34: Our CJS should learn from the system for sealing criminal records employed in many US states. Individuals should be able to have their case heard either by a judge or a body like the Parole Board, which would then decide whether to seal their record. There should be a presumption to look favourably on those who committed crimes e...
BAME – Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic CHAT – Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool CJS – Criminal Justice System CPS – Crown Prosecution Service CRCs – Community Rehabilitation Companies DIRF – Discrimination Information Report Form DWP – Department for Work and Pensions EMT – Equalities Monitoring Tool GRT – Gypsy, Roma and Traveller HMCTS – Her ...
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Aug 30, 2022 · Recognize and respond to the hidden influence of implicit bias by adopting policies that reduce subjectivity in diversion decisions. Require that youth justice systems prepare racial impact statements to analyze the effects of new and existing policies and practices in diversion.
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Feb 1, 2021 · In order to limit these racial disparities in diversion programs, prosecutors, courts, and stakeholders should move away from using recidivism as the primary measure of success.
Dec 6, 2017 · By targeting the underlying problems that led to the crime in the first place, effective diversion programs can improve long-term community safety and reduce recidivism far more effectively than warehousing someone in a prison cell before turning them back onto the streets.
