Diversion and informal social control / edited by Günter Albrecht, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer.

Originates from a conference held at the University of Bielefeld in 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributors -- Part I -- Introduction to Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- The Idea of Prevention and the Critique of Instrumental Reason -- Diversion in the Juvenile Justice System and a Sociological Theory of Social Control -- Diversion and Social Control: Alternative Measures of Crime Control -- Diversionary Tactics: A Rational Choice Approach -- Part II -- Introduction to Part II: Diversion and the Juvenile Justice System -- The Impact and Role of Juvenile Diversion in the United States

The Diversion of Juveniles From Custody: The Experience of England and Wales 1980�90Sentence Without Conviction. Notes on Diversion from the Juvenile Court in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Radical Social Change and Diversion: Problems With Diversion-Oriented Crime Policy in the Critical Transformation of Social Structures and Changes in the Living Conditions of Adolescents -- Part III -- Introduction to Part III: Alternative Sanctions: Theoretical Ideas and Empirical Results -- Diversion, Reintegrative Shaming and Republican Criminology

Diversion in German Juvenile Justice: Its Practice, Impact, and Penal Policy ImplicationsDiversion in Juvenile Justice: Theoretical Expectations and Preliminary Results of a Treatment Outcome Evaluation -- Part IV -- Introduction to Part IV: Diversion, Social Work, and Restitution -- Diversion? It Depends on What We Divert to: Some Comments on Diversion and the Restorative Alternatives -- Concentration on the Wrong Offender Groups: An Assessment of Current Mediation and Restitution Programs -- Measurements of Net-Widening

Alternative Social Work: Informalization of Social Control in the Field of Juvenile Delinquency � An Empirical StudyInformal Justice and Communication: The Case of Diversion and Victim-Offender Mediation -- Diversion and Extrajudicial Programs: Preventive Claims and the Decision-making Process -- A Discrete Outcome-Model to Measure Net-Widening Effects -- Evaluation of Diversion Program Concepts -- Fantasy and the Embodied Moral Capital: Children�s Moral Judgments of Crime and Criminals -- Part V -- Introduction to Part V: Legal Aspects of Diversion

Diversion and Constitutional Crime PolicyEfficiency Interests and the “Rule of Law� in Informal Proceedings -- The Incompatibility of Treatment and Punishment -- Forms of De Facto Decriminalization: Diversion and Defense -- Juvenile-Specific Forms of Decriminalization -- Self-incrimination Privilege and Police Interrogation: A Comparative View -- Subject Index -- Author Index

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