AC 1.3

Question 1

Crime control model/ The conveyer belt

Answer 1

• Emphasises the role of the criminal justice system reducing and preventing crime
• it also accentuâtes the importance for the justice system of protecting and the public through crime reduction
• less focus on the suspects rights, essentially guilty until proven innocent
• viewed as a ‘conveyer belt’ as the ultimate goal of convicting the guilty overrides civil
  liberty
  Examples:
• removal of the ‘double jeopardy law’
• the right to hold
  suspects
  Crime control:
• stop and search
• increased custody power
• ASBOs

Question 2

CC synoptic links

Answer 2

• Right Realism: poor socialisation and development, personality differences or biological factors. weak punishments for criminals
• individuals who commit crime should be held accountable for their crimes
• Lombroso: criminals could be identified through general characteristics
• society needs to be protected from people with atavistic features

Question 3

Due Process/ The obstacle cours

Question 4

DP synoptic links

Answer 4

• Left realism: criminological theory that centres on the study of marginalisation oppression and over policing
• Individuals who are suspected of
  committing crime need to be given appropriate representation
• Marxism: Marxism looks at society as a whole rather that focus of individual difference
• this depends of class in society