Of Herbert Packer’s two models of the criminal justice system, what does the due process model focus on as its principal goal?

a. control of criminal behavior
b. swift and efficient justice
c. equal focus on protecting the innocent as on convicting the guilty
d. reduction of court dockets
e. abolition of mandatory sentencing


ANS: C

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