Due Process Model

• • Opposite of crime control. Focuses on innocent until proven guilty.
  • Promotes fairness and protecting the defendant's legal rights.
  • Arugues that police powers should be limited to prevent oppression of the individual.
  • Argues the justice system should safeguard an individual's rights to avoid miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions.
  • An investigation should be thorough to ensure a correct verdict can be reached.
  • Relates to the Left Realism approach.
• • All interviews being recorded and suspects having the right to legal representation.
  • Police having procedural safeguards they must follow through the PACE Act, 1984.
  • E.g case Thompson and Venable (James Bulgar Killers)