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Consensus Model In Criminal Justice

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The conflict and consensus models reflect two opposite systems in criminal justice. In the conflict model, which works to protect individual rights, “justice is more of a product of conflicts among agencies where the component parts function primarily to serve their own interests”(Cronkhite, 2013, p. 202). Laws in this model reflect the beliefs of the interest groups with the most power and are “used primarily to control the behavior of the defective, dependent, and delinquent, the dangerous classes” (Hagan, 2009, p. 11). Many in this country see this is how the criminal justice systems are today. The consensus model is just the opposite and involves all the agencies working together to move cases and defendants through the
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