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  1. Oct 27, 2023 · Background. 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...

  2. 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. Youth diversion is an increasingly well-embedded practice in England and Wales: research by the Centre for Justice Innovation in 2019 ...

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  3. Jan 27, 2020 · The 1980s decade of diversion in UK youth justice consolidated critiques of iatrogenic systemic contact and generated an abolitionist momentum that was significantly reversed by the 1990s punitive turn and ‘new youth justice’ strategies of modernisation, expansionism, interventionism and risk management. However, the tentative rejection of ...

    • Stephen Case, Kevin Haines
    • 2021
  4. Feb 3, 2020 · There are a number of sources which helpfully map out aspects of the history of diversion in youth justice ( Mays, 1965; Shore, 1999; Smith, 2018 ), and these tend to suggest a process of progressive recognition, formalisation and incorporation within the criminal justice system.

    • Roger Smith
    • 2021
  5. There are a number of sources which helpfully map out aspects of the history of diversion in youth justice (Mays, 1965; Shore, 1999; Smith, 2018), and these tend to suggest a process of progressive recognition, formalisation and incorporation within the criminal justice sys-tem.

  6. Youth diversion operates separately from prevention and early intervention schemes that take effect prior to an arrest. It is also to be distinguished from NHS Liaison and Diversion services that primarily focus on identification, assessment, and

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  8. 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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