AC 1.3 - Models Of Crime Flashcards
True or false: the crime control model is harsh
True
What are the 6 features of the crime control model?
- Guilty until proven innocent
- Conveyor belt
- Individuals suppressed
- Police are warriors/crime fighters
- Protection of society is number 1 priority, the right of individuals are second
- Theory supporting crime control model - right realism
What does guilty till proven innocent mean?
Individuals and suspects need to take action to prove innocence, the police are expected to assume guilt
What is the conveyor belt stage?
Criminal justice system want the arrest and sentencing to be swift and sure, this publicly demonstrates punishment to help society. It doesn’t matter is innocent people go to prison society is more important
What is an example of the conveyor belt stage?
The plea bargaining system and jury less trails
What is the individuals suppressed stage?
Individuals are selfish and dangerous and need to be held back by power
What is an example of the individuals suppressed stage?
Rights to protest are limited
What is the police are warriors/crime fighters stage?
Criminals are selfish damaged people that must be fought and deterred. The police need to be trusted and given the freedom to act using coercive control in law and order
What is an example of police are warriors part?
Operation Venice (hitting moped robbers) or armed police
What does the protection of society being number 1 and rights being number 2 mean?
Laws have to reflect that, whole life orders protect society and deter future offender
What theory supports the crime control model?
Right realism
Footnote
Criminals make a rational choice to commit crime and need to be deterred
What is an example of how right realism supports the crime control model?
The death penalty or Colin Stagg and operation Lizzie
True of false: the due process model is the chill crime control model?
True
What are the 6 parts of the due process model?
- Innocent until proven guilty
- CJS is an obstacle course
- Individuals are moral and deserve compassion
- Police are guardians of public trust
- Individuals are victims of the power of the state
- Root not the symptom
What does innocent until proven guilty mean?
Protect right of individuals, like the PACE act
What does the CJS being and obstacle course mean?
It has to be hard to get a conviction, justice has to be slow to protect individuals rights at all stages
What is an example of the CJS being and obstacle course?
Trial by jury, appeals, miscarriages of justice or guilty people escaping
Footnote
Operation lizzie being ruled inadmissible
What does it mean by individuals are moral and deserve compassion?
Positive about individuals having value in society, they believe individuals can change and shouldn’t be given harsh sentences, like the death penalty
What does it mean by the police being guardians?
The police should serve the community and criminals are real people that deserve help
What is an example of the police being guardians?
Coffee with a cop and community policing tactics
What does it mean by individuals are victims of the power of the state?
That system can’t be trusted and the police are guilty of abusing power
What is an example of individuals being victims of the power of the state?
The Birmingham 6 and body cameras protecting people from the state abusing power
What does it mean by the root and not the symptom?
The system must create trust and demonstrate fairness, the root of the problem is poverty and marginalisation. Coercion doesn’t deter crime, UK now has a 25% recidivism in place where the due process model is used
Footnote
Left realists and interactionists support this system because they want to solve reoffending (recidivism rate)
Why do functionalists support the crime control model?
- Public punishment reinforces social norms and creates social cohesion
- Crimes the create a boundary that affirms social solidarity
- Penal populism make sense as being tough on crime increases public security/trust
Why interactionists support the due process model?
- The police have a proven prejudice they need to be watched as they may abuse their power (institutional bias)
- Criminals that are labelled became a prisoner of self fulfilling prophecy and eventually are master status criminals
- Interactionists want to solve the root of the problem with the aim to reduce reoffending rates ( uk 25%, us 60%, Norway 8%)
