The Anchorage, Alaska Municipal Pretrial Diversion Program: Initial Outcome Assessment

This report provides an initial outcome assessment of the Anchorage Municipal Pretrial Diversion Program, a voluntary program aimed at diverting first-time offenders in certain criminal and traffic cases from traditional case processing, with successful complion of the terms of the program resulting in dismissal of charges. Pretrial diversion agreements under AMC 08.05.060 typically require the defendant to pay a fine or do community work service, usually within a month. The initial assessment examines offender completion under the program, adherence to conditions of probation, and time and cost savings for the Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor's Office.Office of the Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor, Municipality of Anchorage, AKAcknowledgments / Section I: Executive Summary / Counts and Charges of Defendants Offered Pretrial Diversion / Demographic Variations Among Defendants Offered Pretrial Diversion / Conditions of Pretrial Diversion / Length of Time for Pretrial Diversion Processes / Number of Court Hearings and Estimated Time Spent / Section II: Introduction / Section III: Literature Review / Descriptions of Pretrial Diversion / Pretrial Diversion in the United States / Description of Pretrial Diversion in Anchorage / Section IV: Methods / Data Collection / Section VI: Findings / Counts and Charges of Defendants Offered Pretrial Diversion / Demographic Variations Among Defendants Offered Pretrial Diversion / Conditions of Pretrial Diversion / Length of Time for Pretrial Diversion Processes / Number of Court Hearings and Estimated Time Spent / Section VII: Conclusion / References / Appendix: Anchorage Municipal Pretrial Diversion Data Collection For

The Anchorage, Alaska Municipal Pretrial Diversion Program: An Initial Assessment

Pretrial diversion programs have the potential to prevent future criminal behavior through intervention and community based services. This may be particularly true for specific populations of offenders such as those with mental illness, substance abuse disorder, and those with co-occuring disorders. Pretrial diversion programs take low-level offenders out of the jail population, both reducing system overpopulation and costs of incarceration. The programs also provide speedy case processing for minor crimes resulting in savings to the court system and personnel. Pretrial diversion can help an offender avoid a criminal conviction and potentially avoid future criminal violations. Results indicate that most Anchorage pretrial defendants comply with and complete the pretrial conditions in a very short time period, an additional savings in case processing time. This research details the initial assessment of the Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor Pretrial Diversion program. This assessment examines system savings in time and money, as well as policy implications for the justice system that may assist other jurisdictions as they consider implementing a pretrial diversion program

Indigenous youth justice programs evaluation

In this report, four programs that were already being implemented by states and territories and identified by them under the National Indigenous Law & Justice Framework as promising practice in diversion are examined. Executive summary Diversion from the youth justice system is a critical goal for addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous young people in the criminal justice system. In this report, four programs that were already being implemented by states and territories and identified by them under the National Indigenous Law & Justice Framework as promising practice in diversion are examined. The programs were evaluated, as part of a broader initiative, to determine whether and on what basis they represent good practice (ie are supported by evidence). State and territory governments nominated the programs for evaluation. The four programs sit at different points along a continuum, ranging from prevention (addressing known risk factors for offending behaviour, such as disengagement from family, school, community or culture), early intervention (with identified at-risk young people), diversion (diverting from court process—usually for first or second time offenders) and tertiary intervention (treatment to prevent recidivism): • Aboriginal Power Cup (South Australia)—a sports-based program for engaging Indigenous young people in education and providing positive role models (prevention). • Tiwi Islands Youth Development and Diversion Unit (Northern Territory)—a diversion program that engages Tiwi youth who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system in prevention activities, such as a youth justice conference, school, cultural activities, sport and recreation (early intervention and diversion). • Woorabinda Early Intervention Panel Coordination Service (Queensland)—a program to assess needs and make referrals for young Indigenous people and their families who are at risk or have offended and have complex needs (early intervention and diversion). • Aggression Replacement Training (Queensland)—a 10 week group cognitivebehavioural program to control anger and develop pro-social skills, delivered to Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth assessed as ‘at risk’ of offending or reoffending (early intervention and tertiary intervention with offenders to reduce risk of reoffending). For each program, the evaluation team developed a ‘program logic’, identifying the activities and goals of the program, and how it articulates within a broader framework of criminal justice prevention. This informed the design of the evaluation and the approach to collecting both qualitative data (from young people participating in the program, program staff, family, or other service providers/community members) and quantitative data to identify any effects of the program on individuals, or the broader community

The Adolescent Diversion Program in New York: A Reform in Progress

This paper reviews the lessons learned from nine pilot court sites testing the Adolescent Diversion Program, which brings cases of 16- and 17-year-olds before specially trained judges, who have access to an expanded array of dispositions, including age-appropriate services. The Adolescent Diversion Program was created as a forerunner to proposed legislation that would allow courts to divert cases pre-trial and focus more effectively on the special needs of adolescent defendants

FACTORS AFFECTING PARTICIPATION IN THE MILK DIVERSION PROGRAM IN THE U.S. AND NEW YORK

Participation in the 1984-85 Milk Diversion Program (MDP) is examined through the analysis of aggregate state level data for the U.S. and county level data from New York. Linear probability, logit and probit models of participation are estimated. The empirical results are highly similar across models and identify the important determinants of farmer participation in the MDP. Models explaining contracted diversion levels are also estimated but do not have the explanatory power of the participation models. The implications of the results for the analysis of U.S. dairy policy alternatives are discussed.Agricultural and Food Policy, Livestock Production/Industries,

Concordance Percussion Ensemble, April 6, 1998

This is the concert program of the Concordance Percussion Ensemble performance on Monday, April 6, 1998 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Diversion by David Sorgi, Suite by Lou Harrison, The Humming Bird (arr. Becker) by George Hamilton Green, Six Marimbas by Steve Reich, Living Room Music by John Cage, Dining Room Music by Rubert Kettle, and Brooms Hilda by Chris Crockarell. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Examining the effectiveness of youth diversion programming

The ability to divert youth, found guilty of offences under the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act, away from formal sentencing sanctions is a fundamental principle and cornerstone of Youth Justice. This research paper contains both an analysis of the existing literature and the expert opinion of a Youth Diversion Program Coordinator in British Columbia (who will be referred to as Informant A). An examination of the existing literature indicated that youth diversion programs are effective in reducing recidivism rates among youth. This paper focuses specifically on the elements which contribute to a successful diversion program. These include: collaboration with the community and various stakeholders, mentoring, youth taking accountability and responsibility and police ‘buy in’ of the program. Interestingly, gender was found not to be a contributing factor to referral rates or successful completion of the diversion program. Various deficiencies in the literature are also discussed, including: challenges defining youth diversion, small sample sizes and lack of Canadian content. In summary, this research paper demonstrates that youth diversion programs are an effective measure in reducing recidivism rates among youth. These programs, when they contain the aforementioned elements above, are an acceptable means to hold youth accountable to the community

Recycling and Sustainable Acquisition Workshop

Recycling Program: Overview; C & D Solid Waste Diversion: Concrete; Composting Process; Composting Program; Program Performance; Recycling Program Initiatives; SSC Landfill Life Expectancy; Outreach: Earth Day 2018; Sustainable Acquisition

Diversion of loan use: who diverts and why?

This paper uses 2973 loan profile records of 2810 poor households who have taken these loans from different quasi-formal sources of which about 50 percent of the loan taken is supplied by the Ultra-poor oriented program designed by PKSF. The objective of this program was to create some income source for these Ultra-poor through credit support. But diversion of loan use from the proposed IGA to other non-productive sector, especially to consumption hinders the objects and at the same time causes a threat to the MFIs as some of them become default. We observe that among these Ultra-poor households who have taken loan, about 68 percent of the loan was diverted from the proposed IGA to other activity with different degree of diversion and of these diverted loan, 40 percent was fully diverted. We find that among the non-savers, wage employers, inhabitants of char have higher likelihood of diverting their received loan from the proposed IGA to others and more than 28 percent of each loan on average was used for consumption.Credit, Diversion, Default, Fund, IGA, Index, Loan, Microfinance