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Due Process Model and Packer's Crime Control

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of each one are explained thoroughly, as well as why and how one is more generally accepted than the other. This paper gives a thorough and intriguing look at  two facets of the criminal justice system. PACKERS CRIME CONTROL MODELS In 1964 Herbert Packer published Two Models of the Criminal Process. Since that time the use of  models has been prevalent among the criminal justice system as a better way to view the overall crime scene. "As in the physical and social sciences, models present a  hypothetical but coherent scheme for testing the evidence" (King 1981, PG). Packers crime control model posited that a majority of all cases "end in guilty pleas or prosecutorial withdrawals" (Roach  1999, 671). His due process model is one that suggests, "the cases that go to trial and are appealed were the most influential" (Roach 1999, 671). Each of  these models has different reasoning behind it. Packers crime control model was founded more because of the publics concern for security. His model of due process was founded  due to the supremacy of the rights of the individual in relation to the state (Roach 1999). DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO MODELS Packer chose to create these two different  models of the criminal justice system in order to better depict how these two different viewpoints "compete for priority in the operation of the criminal justice process" (Packer 1969, 153)  and Packer wanted to show the way that each of these in their own way were significant in determining the system as well as the motivations of "its functionaries" (Packer  1969, 153). Wemmers (2000) further examines Packers two models and theorizes that victims rights are not put first in the matter of the crime control model. This model has