The phrase "alternative to prosecution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when discussing options other than formal legal proceedings against an individual.
Example: "The defendant was offered an alternative to prosecution, which included community service and rehabilitation programs."
Alternatives: "substitute for prosecution" or "option besides prosecution".
District Attorney Denis Dillon's office is frustrated because it relies on support services as an alternative to prosecution.
They are referred here by a probation officer or a judge, as an alternative to prosecution in the city's overtaxed Family Court, where children under 16 are tried.
Asbos – a civil order – were increasingly used as an additional punishment for a criminal conviction instead of as an alternative to prosecution.
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Certain types of minor damage, such as graffiti, may be dealt with by the issue of Fixed Penalty Notices as an alternative to prosecution.
The report suggested that, as an alternative to prosecution at the ICC, a third country, such as South Korea, could use the doctrine of "universal jurisdiction" to prosecute North Korean officials for crimes against humanity.
Although it is still early days, some have suggested that, if successful, the model could act as an alternative to prosecutions by the International Criminal Court, which has become discredited in the eyes of many Africans.
If you'd asked me that question a few years ago, I would probably have agreed that there are no alternatives to prosecution and punishment in response to such crimes.
Specifically, the group calls for the development of alternatives to prosecution for the addicted and those suffering from mental illness, the reduction of the number of crimes on the books, the downgrading of some non-violent felonies to misdemeanors, and the reduction (and in some cases the elimination of) excessively punitive mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
That alternative to the prosecution's theory of the case must have been compelling to the jury, said Mr. Kobre, the former prosecutor.
Although those strategies, referred to collectively as diversion, take many forms, a typical diversion program results in a person who has been accused of a crime being directed into a treatment or care program as an alternative to criminal prosecution and imprisonment.
