Canceled-The Art of Diversion Using Restorative Justice & Appropriate Station Adjustments-Dixon

This class meets the following ILETSB mandates:

Civil Rights 1 Hour

Constitutional and Proper Use of Authority 2 Hour

Legal Updates 1 Hour

Officer & Youth Interaction 1 Hour

COURSE CONTENT:

Over the past 30 years Illinois Law Enforcement has moved away from engaging with juveniles who have committed low level misdemeanor crimes and their parents/guardians. Unfortunately, Illinois ranks as the top 3 states for NOT having quantitative reporting numbers to the federal government about our interactions with juveniles. Illinois Law Enforcement rather has shifted from spending time and educating juveniles in their jurisdictions to writing them tickets, doing nothing with the case or arresting them, fingerprinting them, and booking them. That is NOT what the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 intended in its legislative intent. In order to have meaningful interactions with juveniles, we trained and certified thousands of Juvenile Officers over the last 20 years. Their job is to advocate for the juvenile plain and simple. However, Juvenile Officers in this state have not had in-depth training to execute proper Station Adjustments be it Informal or Formal. This class will instruct the certified juvenile officer how to use Restorative Justice practices when there is victimization involved. We will go in depth as to what are the steps for meaningful diversion that will have a positive impact on not only the juvenile but their parents/guardian as well. The research data is very clear. When Law Enforcement has a positive interaction with a juvenile who commits a low-level crime and is held accountable through diversion and restorative justice, the recidivism rate for that juvenile to commit another crime is less than 10%. This is the data nationwide. We must come back to the legislative intent of the Juvenile Court Act and we will accomplish this through this one-day refresher course.