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CRIMILOLOGY

CRIMILOLOGY. Policing, Prosecution & White Collar crime. Herbert Packer: Crime Control in a Democratic Society. Two competing models of our CJ system: *Crime Control *Due Process. Crime Control. Key concerns: >apprehension and punishment of criminals

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CRIMILOLOGY

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  1. CRIMILOLOGY Policing, Prosecution & White Collar crime

  2. Herbert Packer: Crime Control in a Democratic Society • Two competing models of our CJ system: *Crime Control *Due Process

  3. Crime Control • Key concerns: >apprehension and punishment of criminals >stresses the criminal justice system’s need to capture and process criminals in the most efficient manner possible

  4. Due Process • Key Concerns: >the detection and prosecution of suspects are unreliable and fraught with error >some errors come from honest mistakes; others stem from deliberate deception and bias

  5. Due Process *CJ system needs to protect suspects from error and limit the government’s ability to use the legal system arbitrarily and abusively *emphasizes procedural justice

  6. What are the origins of the Due Process Model? • U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights >right to counsel >jury trials >right to confront witnesses >freedom from unreasonable searches, seizures and cruel and unusual punishment

  7. Tensions between Crime Control and Due Process • The more crime control we want, the less due process we can have

  8. Jerome Skolnick: Working Personality • The work people do affects the way they view the world and even their personalities. • The “working personality” of the police stems from the danger of their job.

  9. Policing: Issues • Excessive Force • Corruption: Meat-Eaters and Grass Eaters • Discretion • Race, Ethnicity and Arrests: Racial Profiling • Gender and Arrest • Impact of Policing on Crime: Deterrence

  10. White Collar Crime • “A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”-Edwin Sutherland (1949)

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