Teen court is a juvenile diversion program designed to circumvent the formal processing of first-time juvenile offenders within the juvenile justice system. the article "an experimental evaluation of teen courts" (j. of experimental criminology, 2008: 137–163) reported on a study in which offenders were randomly assigned either to teen court or to the traditional department of juvenile services method of processing. of the 56 tc individuals, 18 subsequently recidivated (look it up! ) during the 18-month follow-up period, whereas 12 of the 51 djs individuals did so. does the data suggest that the true proportion of tc individuals who recidivate during the specified follow-up period differs from the proportion of djs individuals who do so