Models of Criminal Justice
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- Created on: 15-11-20 15:21
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- Models of Criminal Justice
- The Crime Control Model
- Proposed by Herbert Packer
- The quick and efficient disposal of criminals
- Also called the 'Conveyor Belt' model
- Aim = to stop reoffending
- Focus = protecting the rights of the victim not the offender
- Gives the police enhanced powers
- Theories
- Right Realism
- Zero-tolerance policing
- Functionalism
- Reinforces moral bounds in society
- Right Realism
- Examples of support
- Allowance of bad character as evidence + previous convictions
- Removal of the 'Double Jeopardy' law
- Extended pre-trial detention time for terrorism
- The Due Process Model
- Proposed by Herbert Packer
- Concept of a person is innocent until proven guilty
- Police have limited powers
- CJS - safeguarding the rights of everyone
- Helps to ensure a just verdict
- Theories
- Left Realism
- Non-discriminary
- Labelling
- Stops the labelling of people
- Left Realism
- Examples of support
- Acknowledge through the Criminal Evidence Act 1984
- All interviews are now recorded
- The right to legal representative
- Human Rights Act 1998
- The CJS to be looked at from a human rights perspective
- The Crime Control Model
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