CRIM 2652 Lecture 8: Reading Notes 3

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 2652
• Professor: Amanda Glasbeek

Document Summary

The harder the process is to use, the smaller the number of people who can be handled but it at a given level of resources for standing and operating it. The harder it is to put a suspected criminal in jail: the victimless crimes always present a greater problem to the criminal process. These offences that do not result in anyone"s feeling been injured so as to impel him to bring the offense to the attention of authorises. Ex. people having sex before marriage in countries where it is illegal. They may commit a crime, but there is no victim and they are not going to report it. They represent an attempt to abstract two separate value systems that compete for priority in the operation of the criminal process: these two models are called due process model and the crime control model. Values underlying the models: these model are polarities, and so are the schemes of values that underline them.