Crime Control Model Paper

The Packer’s crime control model from a political standpoint reflects more on traditional conservative values while the due process models lean more towards traditional liberal values (Bohm, 2014.) When politically conservative values are dominant in society, the principle and policies of the crime control model seem to dominate the operation of the crime control model and vice versa when more traditional liberal values are dominated then they lean more towards the due process model (Bohm, 2014.) The crime control model the control of criminal behavior is the important function of criminal justice “assembly-line justice” while the primary focus un the due process model is at least as much to protect the innocent as it is to convict the guilty “obstacle …show more content…
The election of Barack Obama suggests that the American people have become tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on programs and a process that is not providing them with the safety from criminal behavior they so desperately desire” (Bohm, 2014.) This would mean if correct we should see a shift in the criminal justice practice to a more due process model in the shift of the value held by American political leaders (Bohm, 2014.)
Although we expected a shift then, we could with the same conclusion expect the shift back to the crime control model with a conservative president, Trump, in office (Bohm, 2014.) I have the understanding the crime is still an issue and because of that, I believe that we need to make a shift in the program and because of that lean more towards crime control. They want to stop crime and the using efficient method of doing that (Bohm, 2014.) Liberal in this day is a bad word and using a method such as due process knowing that it has the more liberal name would cause more of an uproar compared to a conservative method.