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- Diversion decisions and activities usually occur at the earliest stages of involvement in the juvenile justice system; however, diversion initiatives can be put in place at later stages of justice processing with the primary goal of reducing costly out-of-home placements.
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Diversion is where children with a linked offence receive an alternative outcome that does not result in a criminal record, avoids escalation into the formal youth justice system and associated stigmatisation.
Oct 27, 2023 · Key issues are whether: diversion is away from the youth justice system, or away from offending behaviour, with, again, the first requiring only the diversion and the second suggesting that...
May 23, 2022 · Diversion includes decisions, programs, or services to, under certain circumstances, steer youth away from formal processing in the juvenile justice system. The decision to use diversion instead of judicial proceedings can be made by law enforcement officers, educators, prosecutors, judges, or other court staff, depending on the jurisdiction.
Diversion is a ‘loosely coupled’ decision-making point in the youth justice system, i.e. one relatively unconstrained by legal rights or statutory criteria.14 While the decision to divert is ideally a joint one between police and the Youth Offending Service (YOS), and even a wider scrutiny panel, in practice the decision may turn on frontline po...
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diversion should occur at the earliest stages of juvenile justice processing to prevent further involvement in the system. However, diversion mechanisms can be instituted at later stages of justice
diversion, summarizing its history in juvenile justice, as well as its values and limitations. The research summary also identifies the range of diversion processes used across the country, clarifies the points within the juvenile justice system at which diversion may occur, and reviews the key components and characteristics of
Jan 23, 2024 · Children should accordingly be diverted from both justice and welfare “systems” (Morris et al. 1980), rather than into stigmatizing intervention programs. Diversion in England and Wales came to be reset in the 1980s, typified by the informal model of diversion developed by the Northamptonshire Juvenile Liaison Bureaux.
