How do the due process model and crime control model differ in terms of their goals? Which goal do you most agree with and why?
What will be an ideal response?
The goal of the crime control model is controlling crime, while the goal of the due process model is protecting rights of the defendant. As this suggests, the goal is to move cases through the justice process as swiftly as possible. Suspects who are "probably innocent" are screened out early in the process by police and prosecutors; those who are "probably guilty" are moved quickly and perfunctorily through the remaining stages in the process and are convicted, usually by a plea of guilty, as expeditiously as possible. Thus, the system achieves the goal of controlling crime by separating the innocent from the guilty early in the process, by extracting early guilty pleas from those who are not screened out by police and prosecutors, and by avoiding trials. The crime control model is willing to sacrifice some reliability in pursuit of efficiency. It tolerates mistakes up to the level at which they interfere with the goal of preventing crime; if too many guilty people go free or if there is a general view that the system is not reliable, crime might increase rather than decrease.
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What will be an ideal response?
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