Models Of Crime Interpretation

Question 1

What is the aim of the crime control model?

Answer 1

• it presumes guilt
• the police identify those who are “probably guilty”
• free of any legal technicalities
• few innocents will be convicted but that is “a price worth paying”

Question 2

Which theory would support the crime control model?

Answer 2

Right Realists as they argue crime is a rational choice.
- a problem which effects the poor
- tough and harsh punishment is the only way to stop crime

Question 3

Discuss the aims of retribution

Answer 3

• RETRIBUTION - offenders deserve punishment, (revenge), offender gets their “Just Desserts”
• it is a backwards looking theory
• Durkheim - Boundary Maintenance
  AO3: can be argued offenders deserve forgiveness

Question 4

Discuss the aim of rehabilitation (reformation)

Answer 4

• attempts to reintegrate an offender back into society
• forward looking theory
  Types: Drug Treatment programs
  Aversion therapy (Eysenck) - discouraged bad behaviour by association (addiction)
  Can Link to Operant Conditioning ^
• Left Realism supports this aim
  AO3: RR argue rehab has limited success

Question 5

Discuss the aims of a deterrence

Answer 5

• making the offender and others discouraged from committing a crime
• e.g; Prison Sentence / Fine
  HOWEVER; the recidivism rate shows that many prisoners are not deterred
  AO3: supported by the Social Learning Theory which states seeing a punishment would deter you from repeating
  AO3: 1/2 prisoners reoffend