Evaluation of a Juvenile Diversion Program: Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

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Article

Department

Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (CGU)

Publication Date

1981

Disciplines

Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

The evaluation of a juvenile diversion program was approached through the development of multiple lines of evidence bearing on each of the two major program goals: providing a community-based alternative for arrested juveniles who otherwise would have been referred to the juvenile justice system and reducing juvenile delinquency. Convergent results from various measures, research designs, and data stratifications indicated that the program had little success in decreasing referrals to the juvenile justice system but produced a positive delinquency reduction effect (concentrated among less serious offenders). These results are discussed in terms of (1) their significance for the diversion program and (2) the nature of the multiple methodology that produced them.

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