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Ad Populum Argumentation in Criminology: Juvenile Diversion as Rhetoric

Arnold Binder

Gilbert Geis

For a variety of reasons, some valid, many irrelevant, it has become fashionable within sociological criminology to condemn juvenile diversion. Participants in the condemnatory rituals identify each other as insiders by catchy words and phrases (like "widening the net"), and frequently substitute rhetoric for logic in their argumentation aimed both at gaining cultic recognition and winning over the unwary. Perhaps the most damaging consequence is the forfeiture of influence in an important social process by a large array of social scientists. Contrary to the predictions of some in the cult, diversion remains a flourishing mode of serving young offenders, as indeed it must so long as the present juvenile justice system remains in operation.

Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 30, No. 4, 624-647 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0011128784030004010
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