Unit 4: AC1.3: Describe models of criminal justice

Question 1

What does Left Realism say about the due process model?

Answer 1

• In favour of the model.
• Military style policing undermines community relations, so we should focus on getting the community on side.

Question 2

What does Labelling Theory say about the due process model?

Answer 2

• In favour of the model.
• Crime control encourages police to label ‘typical criminals’, so we should limit police power.

Question 3

What does Right realism say about the crime control model?

Answer 3

• In favour of the model.
  -Right wing theory in favour of stop and search, zero tolerance, and favours police powers.

Question 4

What do Functionalists say about the crime control model?

Answer 4

-In favour of the model.
-Punishment reinforces society’s boundaries.
-Main function of punishment is to punish the guilty so society can express it’s outrage.

Question 5

What is an advantage of the due process model?

Answer 5

It favours human rights

Question 6

what does the due process favouring human rights suggest?

Answer 6

seen as more ethical- puts the rights of suspects before criminalisation.

Question 7

What is another straight of the model in context of the police?

Answer 7

Places more controls on the behaviour of the police.

Question 8

What is an example of more control being placed on the behaviour of the police?

Answer 8

Stops them from searching anyone without a justified reason.

Question 9

However, what is one of the main issues of the model?

Answer 9

Guilty people go free.

Question 10

What does guilty people going free have links to?

Answer 10

The safety of verdicts. it is also slower and less efficient.

Question 11

What is put in place to make a conviction as difficult as possible?

Answer 11

Obstacles.

Question 12

What is an advantage of the crime control model?

Answer 12

Guilty people get convicted and don’t go free- dealt with quickly = efficient

Question 13

Who argued that under this model, weak criminal cases would be “disregarded at the earliest opportunity”?

Answer 13

PACKER

Question 14

Furthermore, why is the public perception of ‘toughness’ on crime politically popular?

Answer 14

Because people feel safer.

Question 15

However, this model relies on the quality of policing, what can this lead to?

Answer 15

Coercive practices, and in turn, miscarriages of justice.

Question 16

Additionally, what is a likelier occurrence, given that the police have more rights?

Answer 16

Human rights abuses.

Question 17

What happened in the case of COLLIN STAGG?

Answer 17

Stagg was tricked into confessing to the crime, thus securing a conviction at any cost.

Question 18

Due Process- what case study links to this model?

Answer 18

Sion Jenkins- The right to appeal.

Question 19

What happened in the case of Sion Jenkins in relation to due process?

Answer 19

-convicted of murder in 1998.
-Experience defined by consistent assertion of innocence.

Question 20

What did the due process model allow Sion Jenkins to do?

Answer 20

Appeal

Question 21

What did the successful second appeal do?

Answer 21

Attracted worldwide media attention.

Question 22

Due Process- what is another case study that links to this model?

Answer 22

Gary Weddel- Right to bail.