AC1.3: describe models of criminal justice

Question 1

What is the due process model?

Answer 1

The opposite to the crime control model.
Focuses on the presumption of innocence, and the importance of producing fairness through protecting the legal rights of defendants.

Question 2

What is the crime control model?

Answer 2

Seeks for a quick and efficient disposal of criminal cases - similar to an assembly line/conveyer belt.
The aim is to punish criminals and stop them from committing further crimes.

Question 3

What theory of criminality does the due process model link to?

Answer 3

Left realism - focus on the inequalities created by a capitalist society. With a more equal and caring society helping to eventually eliminate crime.

Question 4

What theory of criminality does the crime control model link to?

Answer 4

Right realism - zero tolerance.

Question 5

What are the areas of the law which support the due process model?

Answer 5

• the acknowledgement of the need for police procedural safeguards by the introduction if the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984.
• all interviews must be recorded and suspects have the right to legal representatives
• the Human Rights Act 1998 allows for criminal justice practices to be thoroughly looked at from a human rights perspective.