Criminal Justice System Paper Week 1 CJA 204 (2 Pages 903Words)

Crime is a wrong doing in our society. Laws are established in our society to keep peace and security in our neighborhoods. When a person violates a known law then a crime has been committed. This is when the models of due process and crime control come into play. Herbert Packer, a Stanford University law professor, constructed two models, the crime control model and the due process model, to represent the two competing systems of values operating within criminal justice. The tension between the two accounts for the conflict and disharmony that now is observable in the criminal justice system. (Houghton, Miffilin, & Harcourt, 2015) These models differ greatly. The crime control model is based on conservative...