The United States Supreme Courts’ decisions have ranged from due process to crime control and today it is more favoring towards due process but there are risk when favoring one over the other no matter which one is picked. Due process was establish in the 14th amendment which was ratified in 1868, while crime control is not in the constitution it depends on what the constitution says and precedent set by the courts. “In a series of decisions in the 1960s called the “due process revolution,” the pendulum swung in favor of individuals’ procedural rights (Samaha, 2014, chapter 2).” Since then though the criminal justice in America went back to focusing on crime control more. This happened due to the incorporation doctrine which applied “specific
