A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017-2019.
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Abstract
The US justice system unfairly targets youths of color; systemic reform plus interventions to keep youths out of the justice system are needed. The Juvenile Justice Collaborative provided care coordination and wraparound services to adolescents in a diversion program from 2017 to 2019 in Cook County, Illinois. Youths showed increased strengths and decreased needs by program's end. Youths who successfully completed the program showed reduced recidivism compared with nonprogram youths. Community-based alternatives to incarceration may decrease life disruption, promote positive health and social outcomes, and reduce further justice involvement. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2022;112(9):1265-1268. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306946).
Medical subject headings
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Recidivism