On completion of this chapter, students should be able to do the following:

• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of prevention and diversion programs
   
• Describe three major types of prevention
   
• List and discuss several specific prevention and diversion programs
   
• Discuss the concept of restorative justice
   
• Describe some specialty or therapeutic courts and their role in the prevention of juvenile crime
   
• Critique prevention and diversion programs