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diversion2 CONSTRUCTSDiversionary displayARMSTRONG · 1949Offender diversionKLEIN · 1979

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Animal behaviour

Luring a predator off course

In animal behaviour, a diversionary (or distraction) display is a performance by a parent, most famously a bird feigning a broken wing, that draws a predator away from the nest or young and toward the displaying adult. Armstrong's 1949 Diversionary display. Part 1. Connotation and terminology fixed the term and separated genuine attention-drawing behaviour from related anti-predator acts. The referent is an evolved behaviour that lures a threat off its course, and it shares only the word 'diversion' (turning something aside) with a surgeon's rerouting of urine or a court's rerouting of an offender.[1]

Unit
Whether and how strongly a parent's display pulls a predator away from offspring
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by the display's success in moving a predator away and the resulting survival of nest or young

Criminal justice

Steering a case out of court

In criminal justice, diversion steers a person, often a juvenile or a low-level or first-time offender, out of formal prosecution and into a program, caution, or treatment instead, on the premise that formal processing can do more harm than good. Klein's 1979 Deinstitutionalization and diversion of juvenile offenders: A litany of impediments reviewed the juvenile-diversion movement and the ways it fell short of its aims, including the risk of drawing in youths who would otherwise have been released. The referent is the rerouting of a case away from the court track, measured by program placement and later offending, and it is unrelated to a ureteric conduit or a bird's broken-wing act beyond the shared idea of turning aside.[2]

Unit
Whether an eligible case is routed out of formal processing into an alternative
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Tracked by diversion-program placement rates and subsequent reoffending compared with formal processing

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References

  1. Armstrong, E. A. (1949). Diversionary display. Part 1. Connotation and terminology. Ibis, 91(1), 88–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1949.tb02239.x
  2. Klein, M. W. (1979). Deinstitutionalization and diversion of juvenile offenders: A litany of impediments. Crime and Justice, 1, 145–201. https://doi.org/10.1086/449061

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