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Criminal Justice Diversion and Liaison Services: A Path to Success?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2012

Wendy Dyer
Wendy Dyer*
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Department of Social Sciences, NorthuDombria University E-mail: wendy.dyer@northumbria.ac.uk
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Abstract

Diversion services for adult mentally disordered offenders are back in the limelight twenty years after their original development. This article argues there are a number of important lessons to be learnt. Services of this kind ‘process’ different people in different ways with different outcomes. Current developments therefore need to provide an holistic, patient-centred approach across the whole offender pathway, which meets the needs of different groups of people. What works for some might not work for others, but patterns can be mapped and good and bad pathways identified and used to inform good practice and service improvement.

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Diversionmental healthoffenderscriminal justicepathways
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Articles
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 31 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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