AC1.3

Question 1

What are key features of the crime control model?

Answer 1

• goal is the suppression of crime
• prioritises punishing offenders
• presumption of guilt
• favours a conveyer belt system
• emphasis of the tights of society and victims

Question 2

What are the key features of the due process model?

Answer 2

• protect the accused from oppression
• presumption of innocence
• set of due process rules
• obstacle course
• rights of the accused individuals

Question 3

What is labelling theory?

Answer 3

Once an individual is labelled as a criminal they internalise this label and becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and they live up to this label.

Question 4

What is functionalism?

Answer 4

Crime is inevitable and it has 3 positive functions
- boundary maintenance
- social change
- social cohesion

Question 5

What is right realism?

Answer 5

There are 3 causes of crime
- rational choice
-inadequate socialisation leads individuals to crime
-Biological so differences

Question 6

What is left realism?

Answer 6

There are 3 main causes of crime
- marginalisation
- relative deprivation
- subcultures