Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Crime Control Model

There are two distinct types of models that are found in the English criminal justice system. These are the crime control model and the due process model. They vary in their characteristics and are considered to take divergent objectives. Basing on their evident differences, one of them is actually considered being more effective than the other if the new wave and rate of crime being witnessed in the society is anything to go by. This paper therefore seeks to identify some of the differences between these models and point out that which is considered as effective in dealing with rate of crime in our current society.

The criminal justice system is composed of three parts – Police, Courts and Corrections – and all three work together to protect an individual’s rights and the rights of society to live without fear of being a victim of crime. According to merriam-webster.com, crime is defined as “an act that is forbidden or omission of a duty that is commanded by public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law.” When all the three parts work together, it makes the criminal justice system function like a well tuned machine.

Those that believe in this approach oppose against rehabilitation and treatment of offenders and that they should be incarcerated, this would also act as a deterrent to potential offenders thus giving social control.

There has long been a debate over which, if any, are the most effective methods of crime control. Governments from bottom to top in our nation have poured over the issue with mixed results for as long as there has been a nation. Until very recently deterrence was completely based on fear of punishment. However, recent years have provided us with a more complete understanding of crime and its roots among the more desirable parts of our society, specifically the mind of a criminal. Through the study of psychology, specifically free will, determinism and social identity, we may find that situational crime prevention is a better means to deter crime in our nation.

Since jails can take on much more offenders that may have taken up space in prisons, this frees up space for more dangerous criminals. This reduces the issue of overcrowding for prisons, which will lead them to reducing the amount of inmates they send to be held in jails. The second pro I would see with holding offenders in jails for long term is producing more jobs. Because there will be a need for more staff to work within jails because of more offenders and longer sentences, this produces more jobs within the county. The third pro would be instead of sending non-dangerous criminals to prison; like drug offenders, non-violent offenders, etc.; they can now be given a longer sentence to a jail facility instead of a sentence to a prison.

The Crime Control Model states that there may be some individual rights that need to be sacrificed for the good of society as a whole. In the Crime Control Model crime is actively and aggressively pursued and punished. Some of the methods used to employ this method are "targeting high crime areas, increased patrols and traffic stops, profiling, undercover sting operations, wiretapping, surveillance, and aggressive raids and searches." (Perron) The benefits of the Crime Control Model are that criminals and crime itself is what law enforcement begins to target. The negative effect is that the zealous pursuit of crime and often result in huge amounts of collateral damage or even loss of human life.

Many believed TSLs would lower crime rates. Proponents of TSLs argued the policy would deter and incapacitate violent felons and lower crime rates by increasing the certainty and severity of punishment through the reduction of judicial sentencing discretion. (Kovandzic, Sloan, &Vieraitis, 2004).

There have been theories made by people in government position on the crime epidemic and how to lower crime the crime rate. Many believe that the tougher the consequences, the better it would help people deter away from a life of crime. Unfortunately, this is not true for countries like the United States. We have very strict consequences for people that commit crime, yet we also have one of the

The only similarity between Due Process and Crime Control Model is that they both relate to the framework of the United States Constitution. They both embrace Constitutional work and values relating to our adversarial system. Both models make it known that law enforcement including prosecutors and police are not allowed to act against a person unless there is some probable cause and evidence that illustrates that they violated the law.

Community corrections is continually changing and has been for the past one hundred years. From the early to mid-twentieth century onward it has used three major models, the medical model, community model, and the crime control model. The major turning point for the American community corrections system that led to corrections as we know it today was in 1974 when What Works? - Questions and Answers About Prison Reform by Martinson was published. The system changed practically overnight across the nation. The notion of rehabilitating offenders was dismissed and a more punitive “lock them up and throw away the key” mentality took over. Presently the corrections system is still working in the crime control model, but professionals are trying to restructure how we deal with criminal offenders during and after incarceration. The difficulty in the restructuring is finding the balance between punishing criminal offenders proportionate to their crime, but also rehabilitating them to be productive members of society once they are released so that they do not recidivate.

However, the U.S. criminal justice system has already reduced crime; the system works so a reform is not truly needed. If it is not broken, then why fix it? The current system of imprisoning a large number of

In summary, the differences between the two models are obvious. The crime control model depends on the skill of investigative and prosecutorial officers; the due process model respects the reliability of fact-finding processes. The assembly line of the crime control model is mostly involved with competence while the due process model is interested in equality and justice for the accused. The due process model perseveres on the deterrence and riddance of errors possible; the crime control model acknowledges the possibility of errors in which inaccuracies could impede the purpose of inhibiting crime (Roach, 1999).

Is the criminal justice system more effective as a method of bringing the guilty to justice or as a deterrent or a method of social control? It is unanimously agreed that the aim of the criminal justice system is to provide equal justice for all according to the law, by processing of cases impartially, fairly and efficiently with the minimum but necessary use of public resources. It is a complex process through which the state decides which particular forms of behaviour are to be considered unacceptable and then proceeds through a series of stages - arrest, charge, prosecute, trial sentence, appeal punishment -' in order to bring the guilty to justice' (Munice & Wilson, 2006 pIX) and is designed for a coherent administration

The crime-control implications for this perspective are basically based upon creating effective punishment to eliminate crime. These measures must be humane and adhere to human rights to successfully keep criminals from committing the

During this essay, I will be discussing recorded crime statistics and victimisation surveys as they are our primary techniques of measuring levels and trends of crime. After briefly explaining what is meant by these terms, I will seek to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in order to question the extent to which they are reliable resources that provide us with accurate information.