CJS 101 Lecture 1: CJS 101 (Introduction to Criminal Justice) - in-class notes 1
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The crime control model as essentially concerned with the efficiency of the criminal process". Under the criminal control model an emphasis is placed on removing cases where there is a lack of evidence or an unlikely conviction as early as possible in the criminal process. Consequently, it is proposed that in the later stages of the criminal process. The courts should be a smaller number of cases and the remaining cases can be assumed to be guilty as they have yet to be weeded out of the system. Pros and cons of this model: the crime control model is primarily concerned with the maintenance of. Ii. public order, without which citizens cannot enjoy their liberty. It assumes that state officials exercise their discretion in a lawful manner with a tolerable degree of error. In contrast to the basic premise of the crime control model.
