RT Article
T1 Diversion and recidivism: Salt Lake Peer Court unsettling racial and ethnic disparities
JF Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
VO 23
IS 1
SP 46
OP 73
A1 Owen, Rebecca Y.
A2 Muñoz, Ed A.
A2 Adams, Nathanael L.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1916134106
AB Youth courts are a diversion program steering first-time, justice-involved youth away from the juvenile justice system. A comparison of recidivism outcomes between Salt Lake Peer Court (SLPC) and Juvenile Court referred youth during 2010 – 2016, shows that individual characteristics affected recidivism more than legal factors after controlling for participation in and completion of the SLPC diversionary program. Also, the racially diverse samples allowed for an examination beyond the problematic White/Black binary. The varied significant effects for race/ethnicity suggest the potential of peer courts for unsettling diversion disparities among justice-involved youth.
K1 Recidivism
K1 Race/ethnicity
K1 peer courts
K1 Juvenile Justice
K1 Diversion
DO 10.1080/15377938.2024.2446312