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     • Diversion aims to reduce reoffending by diverting children and young people away from formal criminal justice processes and outcomes, such as conviction, and custody, through an alternative community-based intervention.
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   What is a 'diversion' intervention?

   • These interventions ‘divert’ individuals away from formal criminal justice processes – such as prosecution – towards non-criminal justice alternatives, with the aim of reducing subsequent offending. Diversion can be initiated by the police at different stages of the pre-charge process, depending on the specific programme of intervention.

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   What is a 'diversion' in criminal justice?

   • The term ‘diversion’ describes a wide range of models across the criminal justice system, from initiatives that aim to keep ‘at risk’ people out of the criminal justice system altogether, to those that provide an alternative to custody.

   Pre-court diversion for adults - Justice Innovation

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   What are police-initiated diversion programmes?

   • 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.

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   What is “diversion” in juvenile justice?

   • I. What Is Diversion? The emergence of “diversion” as a specifically delineated and widely practiced form of intervention in criminal justice, particularly in youth or juvenile justice, has inevitably been accompanied by attempts to understand and analyze the structures, policies, processes, and outcomes associated with it.

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   Why is diversion important?

   • Consistent with this model, too, diversion needs not just to challenge the criminalising tendencies of the justice system, but to advocate for young people’s rights in general; that is, to reverse the exclusionary processes so often associated with their initial experiences of the justice system.

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   When is diversion from prosecution intervention taken?

   • diversion from prosecution intervention has been completed. This decision will normally be taken about thr months from the commencement of the diversion intervention. Where it is not successfully completed, COPFS may take other prosecut

   National Guidelines on Diversion from Prosecution in Scotland

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3. www.college.police.uk › research › crime-reductionPolice-initiated diversion for adults | College of Policing

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   Police-led diversion programmes are discretionary interventions initiated by the police in response to individuals committing qualifying criminal offences. These interventions ‘divert’ individuals away from formal criminal justice processes – such as prosecution – towards non-criminal justice alternatives, with the aim of reducing ...

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   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.

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   Diversion from prosecution is a process by which the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) are able to refer a case to social work – and their partners – as a means of addressing the underlying causes of alleged offending when this is deemed the most appropriate course of action.

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   Jan 23, 2024 · This chapter reviews the emergence and development of youth diversion and addresses the question of how we define and measure its achievements. Recurrent features of diversion are identified, such as the tension between minimum intervention and a preventive program–based approach.

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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 in...

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   This toolkit is for any practitioner who is involved in, or considering creating, a pre-court diversion scheme for adults in contact with the criminal justice system. What is pre-court diversion? Pre-court diversion seeks to offer a swift and meaningful response to low-level offending.

10. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullDiversion, Rights and Social Justice - Roger Smith, 2021

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    Feb 3, 2020 · Process rights can be pursued by means of active advocacy in pursuit of ‘minimum intervention’, in the form of diversion out of the justice system, and towards other extra-judicial models of intervention to resolve any problems associated with a reported offence.