ac1.3 models of criminal justice

Question 1

crime control model

Answer 1

• suppression of crime
• priorities catching, punishing, deterring and preventing offenders from further crime
• emphasises rights of society and victims to be protected from crime

Question 2

crime control model - process

Answer 2

• begins from presumption of guilt, interrogation and investigation
• police freed from unnecessary legal technicalities
• once ‘probably guilty’ are identified conveyor belt system speedily prosecutes, convicts and punishes

Question 3

crime control model - case study

Answer 3

• colin stagg, targeted for ‘loner’ status undercover police offers used to extract confession

Question 4

due process model

Answer 4

• protect accused from opposition by state
• emphasises rights of accused individual
• suspect’s and defendants rights need to be safeguarded by set of due process rules that investigations and trials must follow

Question 5

due process model - process

Answer 5

• starts from presumption of innocence, ‘innocent until proven guilty’
• rules about arrest, questioning, legal rep, admissibility and disclosure of evidence, cross-examination, secret trials
• necessary obstacles resulting in guilty going free sometimes on a technicality

Question 6

crime control model - link to theory

Answer 6

• right realism, right-wing approach
• functionalism

Question 7

due process model - link to theory

Answer 7

• labelling theory
• left realism