Keeping kids in school through prearrest diversion: School disciplinary outcomes of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program.

In 2016, San Francisco (SF) implemented the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, a harm reduction–based pre-booking diversion system for people who violate drug laws and/or are engaged in sex work. LEAD is set apart from existing diversion programs, as it uses police as point of entry. Prior LEAD studies indicate some success in reducing recidivism and improving life outcomes. However, less is known about program implementation, including barriers and facilitators. Relying on policy documents, interviews, and focus groups, this study describes the LEAD SF’s development, operations, adaptations, and challenges. It also identifies the unique context of LEAD SF that led to implementation barriers and facilitators. Results show that SF experienced success in collaboration, relationship building, and client connections to services but experienced challenges in securing and maintaining police officer buy-in and keeping clear and open lines of communication regarding LEAD goals, objectives, policies, and procedures. This led to the termination of LEAD SF in 2020.

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A Dual Experiment in Intensive Community Supervision: Minnesota's Prison Diversion and Enhanced Supervised Release Programs

The Prison Journal ◽

10.1177/0032855595075003005 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 75 (3) ◽

pp. 330-356 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

ELIZABETH PIPER DESCHENES ◽

SUSAN TURNER ◽

JOAN PETERSILIA

Keyword(s):

Public Safety ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Community Supervision ◽

Diversion Program ◽

Intensive Supervision ◽

National Institute Of Justice ◽

Supervised Release

In 1990, Minnesota enacted legislation to implement an intensive community supervision program as an alternative both to prison and to routine parole. The National Institute of Justice funded RAND to evaluate the program. This article reports on two randomized field experiments designed to measure the implementation and impact of the programs. Detailed information on offender background, services received, and 1-year outcomes was collected for 300 participants. Results showed that the programs were fairly well implemented. Two-year follow-up results indicated that prison-diversion offenders under intensive community supervision posed no greater risk to public safety than those initially sentenced to prison. The prison-diversion program resulted in savings of about $5,000 per offender per year, but these savings were offset by the greater cost of intensive supervision for parolees.

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To Report or Not to Report: Nurses' Attitudes toward Reporting Co-Workers Suspected of Substance Abuse

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204269502500207 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 313-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Jane C. Hood ◽

Patsy L. Duphorne

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Diffusion Model ◽

Substance Abusing ◽

Social Forces ◽

Occupational Culture ◽

Diversion Program ◽

Work Settings ◽

Vulnerability Model ◽

Logistic Regressions ◽

Program Knowledge

Using survey data from a stratified, random sample of New Mexico nurses ( N=498), this study helps to explain why some nurses choose informal rather than formal reporting strategies when confronted with substance-abusing co-workers. The researchers mailed a questionnaire to male and female RNs and LPNs in 1989, two years after New Mexico established its diversion program for substance-abusing nurses. Using a combination of OLS and logistic regressions, the authors test the diffusion model predicting that program knowledge leads to program acceptance and implementation. Finding little evidence of a link between program knowledge and implementation, the authors then offer two alternatives. The vulnerability model predicts that workers in the least secure positions will be most likely to avoid making formal reports, whereas the occupational hegemony model argues that administrators will avoid formal reporting to maintain control over their own work settings. Because their results offer most support for the latter two models, the authors reject the diffusion model and conclude that occupational culture and organizational politics are the most important social forces intervening between program diffusion and implementation.

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Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline: The Philadelphia police school diversion program

Children and Youth Services Review ◽

10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.03.022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 101 ◽

pp. 61-69

Author(s):

Naomi E.S. Goldstein ◽

Lindsey M. Cole ◽

Mark Houck ◽

Emily Haney-Caron ◽

Stephanie Brooks Holliday ◽

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Keyword(s):

Diversion Program ◽

School To Prison Pipeline

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The Collective Crop Diversion Program and Reorganization of Farming in Rural Communities

Journal of Rural Problems ◽

10.7310/arfe1965.14.167 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 167-177

Author(s):

Tsuneo Koike

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Diversion Program

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Local Crime Prevention: ‘Breathing Life (Back) into Social Democratic and Penal Welfare Concerns’?

International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy ◽

10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i4.198 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 40-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Garner Clancey

Keyword(s):

Alternative Education ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Crime Prevention ◽

Local Community ◽

Exercise Program ◽

Prevention Measures ◽

Diversion Program ◽

South Wales ◽

Youth Diversion ◽

Causes Of Crime

Fieldwork in the inner-Sydney postcode area of Glebe (New South Wales, Australia) sought to understand how local community workers conceptualise crime causation and the approaches adopted to prevent crime. Observation of more than 30 inter-agency meetings, 15 interviews and two focus groups with diverse local workers revealed that social-welfare or ‘root’ causes of crime were central to explanations of local crime. Numerous crime prevention measures in the area respond directly to these understandings of crime (a youth diversion program on Friday and Saturday evenings, an alternative education program, a police-youth exercise program, and so on). While other more surveillant forms of crime prevention were evident, the findings of this research suggest a significant social-welfare orientation to crime prevention. These findings echo Brown’s (2012) observations of the resilience of penal-welfarism in Australia.

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