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Mar 19, 2021 · We identified five prevalent study outcomes categories: (a) Service utilization (program retention and completion), (b) Recidivism/criminality, (c) Substance use, (d) Psychosocial functioning, and (e) Other outcomes (e.g., trauma, quality of life, and housing).
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Oct 27, 2023 · Youth diversion can reduce crime, cut costs, and lead to better outcomes for children. Diversion is a term that can refer to several different concepts and has no fixed meaning in the law...
Oct 13, 2020 · Diversion programs redirect individuals with low-level drug and prostitution offenses away from the criminal justice system and into community-based services such as treatment for substance use disorder, housing, and mental health care.
- What Principles Should A Diversion Scheme Be Based on?
- How Will The Scheme Operate?
- Which Offences Are Covered, and How Is Diversion determined?
- Initial Action at Point of Contact/Offence
- How Are Actions/Sanctions recorded?
- Dealing with Repeat Offences
- Dealing with Youth
- Key Things to Avoid
- Monitoring and Evaluation Framework - Outcomes
Diversion schemes, and guidance to develop them, should be based on the following principles: Key to the success of diversion is avoiding harming someone’s life chances with a declarable criminal record that can negatively impact on employment, education, and other opportunities, and increase the risk of reoffending. Avoid harmful net widening or d...
Any diversion scheme should seek to ensure that people caught for low level drug offences are diverted away from the criminal justice system to an appropriate intervention. For example, police forces could adopt a street warning scheme (like the cannabis warning scheme) or a referral to an education programme similar to a speed awareness course, sh...
Diversion should apply to all those who are caught in possession of a controlled drug for personal use regardless of offending history. Consideration may be given to incorporating low level supply offences where the offender is involved in social supply or supply to support their own drug dependency, this is the approach that has been adopted in Du...
Is the diversion post arrest, or does it avoid arrest altogether? Avoiding arrest is generally preferable as less negative impact on the person concerned, and less police time required. Confiscation/disposal of drugs - normally standard procedure Can initial action be done in the field, or does it have to be done at the station? What is the process...
How are different actions and sanctions processed, and who by? While should be no formal criminal record, it is also key to avoid any record of the intervention appearing during external criminal record checks except in exceptional circumstances.
Most diversion programs in Australia allow repeat offences - but may differ in requirements and responses for further offences. 1. The Bristol Drug Education Programme only allows one offence to be eligible for diversion. 2. TVP scheme concluded one chance was not adequate as many people with drug problems will require more than one engagement with...
There are particular sensitivities around young people, requiring different stakeholder involvement Must make decisions around whether to treat under 18s, or other young people (including up to what age someone qualifies as young) differently. For example, the Bristol DEP has a separate course for under 18s If police already have youth caution or “...
Escalation to criminal charges (e.g. for non-payment of fine, failure in treatment, repeat offences, relapse etc) as this is counterproductive and likely to disproportionately impact most vulnerable Discriminatory application against minority groups and children/young people, or by geography, socio economic status - so an equality impact assessment...
Program penetration, numbers diverted compared to numbers eligible for diversion, by demographic. This is important for assessing if there is discriminatory application, with particular groups being over or under diverted Cost of diversion versus traditional criminal justice response Costs or benefits accruing outside (e.g. to treatment groups, hea...
Oct 13, 2020 · Jail diversion programs aim to divert low-level drug offenders toward community care resources, avoiding criminal justice costs and disruptions in treatment for HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and drug abuse.
- Cora L Bernard, Isabelle J Rao, Konner K Robison, Margaret L Brandeau
- 2020
Dec 1, 2022 · We identified four essential principles, developed through thematic groupings of context-mechanism-outcome configurations, to articulate key drivers of the effectiveness of diversion programmes: coordination between services; development and maintenance of relationships; addressing major risk factors; and stabilisation through diversion programmes.
Diversion programmes, centred on minimal intervention and diverting children from the formal justice system, are not only compatible with these developmental realities but also align with the goal of the YJS to facilitate a successful, prosocial transition into adulthood while holding young people accountable for their
