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NCJ 100091
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| Title:
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Diversion Programs - Effect of Stigmatization on Juvenile/Status Offenders
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| Journal:
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Juvenile and Family Court Journal Volume:36 Issue:2 Dated:(Summer 1985) Pages:13-25
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| Author(s):
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D B Anderson ; D F Schoen
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| Sale:
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National Institute of Justice/
NCJRS paper reproduction
Box 6000, Dept F
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
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| Publication Date:
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1985 |
| Pages:
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13 |
| Type:
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State-of-the-art reviews |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Annotation:
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This review of the literature on diversion's positive and negative effects on stigmatization of juvenile status offenders concludes that the issue has been researched only from the organizational perspective and that diversion's impact on stigmatization has yet to be adequately evaluated. |
| Abstract:
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Literature supports that personal, social, and organizational stigma adversely affect status offenders. Similarly, it is agreed that diversion's objective is stigma reduction, an important benefit for status offenders. Both opponents and advocates of diversion, however, have paid little attention to its effect on personal stigmatization and have ignored social stigmatization. Instead, the diversion controversy focuses on the juvenile justice system, with supporters contending that any system avoidance reduces offender stigmatization and opponents arguing that any system extension unavoidably increases status offender stigmatization. Thus, diversion is viewed as both a preventer and perpetrator of secondary deviance. Because of these research shortcomings, it is premature to judge diversion's value. Suggestions for future research, 52 footnotes, and 71 references. |
| Main Term(s):
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Status offender diversion |
| Index Term(s):
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Juvenile status offenders ; Labeling theory ; Juvenile diversion programs |
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