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Diversion and Justice
While there is a direct link between children’s rights—to education, to health and to protection from harm—and measures that prevent children coming...
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Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation
There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an...
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Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing
In this chapter, various means used to process juvenile offenders are considered. The juvenile court was created with the specific philosophy of...
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Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court
We sought to understand the individual level predictors of intermediate outcomes in a diversion drug court. Outcomes included acceptance to drug...
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Prosecutorial Diversion Programs
Despite the increased use of decarceration strategies across the country, racial and ethnic minorities, people living in poverty, and individuals...
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Police-Led Diversion Programs: Rethinking the Gateway to the Formal Criminal Justice System
This chapter is focused on police-led diversion of offenders from the formal criminal justice process. Over the last 50 years, there has been...
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Juvenile Court Administration: Diversion and Informal Processing
The mission and goals of the juvenile court have not changed significantly during the more than 120 years since the first juvenile court was created....
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Pre-arrest diversion to addiction treatment by law enforcement: protocol for the community-level policing initiative to reduce addiction-related harm, including crime
BackgroundDespite evidence that treatment reduces addiction-related harms, including crime and overdose, only a minority of addiction-affected...
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Victims’ Satisfaction With Arrestee Diversion from Prosecution to a Police-Led, Out-of-Court Desistance Contract: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Research QuestionWhat was the impact on crime victims’ satisfaction and respect for the justice system of diverting from prosecution first or second...
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Applying Restorative Justice Models in the Correctional Process
The concept restorative justice implies that the criminal offender, the victim, and the community should all be involved in the offender’s...
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Reducing Repeat Offending Through Less Prosecution in Victoria, Australia: Opportunities for Increased Diversion of Offenders
Research QuestionHow did the use of diversion from prosecution and criminal sentencing change in Victoria, Australia, in the 10 years to 2016/2017,...
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Processing the Juvenile Offender: Diversion, Informal Handling, and Special Dockets
The current focus of juvenile justice is on restorative justice. This involves cooperating with community service agencies and other justice agencies...
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Juvenile Justice Administration Processes and Issues
This second edition textbook focuses on the duties of juvenile justice administrators, featuring more illustrations, examples of programs, and...
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Governance Through Diversion in Neoliberal Times and the Possibilities for Transformative Social Justice
Over the last decade, the dramatic increase in the number of young people diverted from formal processing through the youth justice system in England...
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Facilitators and barriers to adopting or expanding medications for opioid use disorder provision in rural Colorado jails: a qualitative analysis
BackgroundOpioid use disorder (OUD) is common among individuals who are incarcerated. However, OUD treatment services are sparse in smaller county...
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Community buprenorphine continuation post-release following extended release vs. sublingual buprenorphine during incarceration: a pilot project in Maine
BackgroundThe aim of our study was to evaluate the post-release outcomes of incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) treated with...
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Child First and Children’s Rights: An Opportunity to Advance Rights-Based Youth Justice
International children’s rights law provides a set of universal standards that aim to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of the child in conflict...
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Introduction
This edited text explores, analyses and evaluates ‘Child First’—a guiding principle and strategy for understanding children who offend and for...
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Children in Conflict with the Law Rights, Research and Progressive Youth Justice
This book presents an original synthesis of the leading international research on children in conflict with the law, providing an evidence base for...