Global Youth Justice

Scott Peterson created the Global Youth Justice Program in 2009, after leading more than 150 programmes within local, state, national and international arenas to advance youth justice. Youth justice programmes are juvenile diversion programmes and are known as youth, teen, peer, and student courts, youth peer panels and peer courts. Within these programmes, youth are sentenced by their peers for minor violations of the law. The programmes provide communities with the ability to “provide immediate consequences for primarily first‐time youthful offenders.” The majority of programmes are diversion oriented and administered and operated at the local level by various organizations, including...