Topic > Preliminary Diversion Program - 540

For this assignment we were required to read section two of our textbook. This section was about pre-trial diversion. From this section I understood that there were four different types of diversion programs. Within this article I will discuss a pretrial diversion program I found in another state, including its specifics. I will talk about how it works and generally what type of diversion programs it falls under. Once completed, I will also use critical thinking and discuss the pre-diversion program. To get started I looked online at a couple of different states, the first state I looked at was Illinois, but unfortunately I didn't find much information about each program, so I moved on to another state. This time I searched for Florida and came across a really interesting program that I was able to find a fair amount of information about. The program is called the misdemeanor pre-trial diversion program. This program now partners between the Florida State Attorney's Office and other select agencies to divert first-time offenders to pr...