due process model

• What rights does the due process model value?

  the rights of suspects
• What is the starting presumption of the Due Process Model?

  It starts with the presumption of innocence
• How does the Due Process Model view the police's ability to conduct investigations?

  The model has less faith in the police's ability to conduct investigations to the required standards
• How is the justice process described in the Due Process Model compared to the Crime Control Model?

  Rather than a conveyor belt carrying the accused swiftly to punishment, the Due Process Model sees the rules and procedures as protections of individual rights, acting as obstacles that prosecutors must overcome to secure a conviction
• What is the Due Process Model's stance on the guilty potentially going free?

  Sometimes the guilty may go free on a technicality, but this is seen as the lesser of two evils
• What is the primary goal of the Due Process Model?

  The goal of the model is to protect the accused from aggression, from the State and its agencies