What Are The Six Criminal Justice Models

Criminal justice models are one of the first things that students, authors, and researcher’s study and apply to help them understand the concepts of crime and justice. There are six models of criminal justice, three of which are ‘descriptive’ and three of which are ‘normative’. All these models are foundations which helps to explain what researchers find. Descriptive models are the models that correlate to what the researcher has actually find when they study a particular system or organisation. Normative models are used to show ideals, just and moral basis’s in regard to the criminal justice system. Some key thinkers take the criminal justice models and develop their own theories and ideals, which then have

The first model is called the Bureaucratic model, and there are four elements that are all make up this model: adherence to procedures rights and powers, the recording of all information, the resolution of all information, the resolution of cases quickly, and the general limitation of costs (McFarquhar, 2011). When Weber spoke of this model, he reinforced the underlying point that this wouldn’t be a set way to completely deliver justice, but a model to try and implement into already existing justice deliverance procedures, and that organisations that show proof of this model have become, and have the potential to become bureaucratic of their own accord, and that systems and organisations are looking to try and implement elements from this model to try and make their systems more

The first normative model is called the crime control model. The crime control model is often associated and linked with ideas regarding utilitarianism, which is where actions should be evaluated on the basis of what their consequences would be, and in turn, helps to promote the largest amount of good, for the largest amount of people, (Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832), and in regards to criminal justice, this means that most people who are accused of committing a crime, should be tried and found guilty, in an efficient way, and that the punishment that these offenders are receiving needs to be harsher and have a higher severity level in order to try and deter people from making the same choices. According to Case et al (2017, p.91), there is a high level of acquittals in the criminal justice system, that are unfair, and should have resulted in a guilty verdict, and that regarding the collective conscious, are often thought of in utilitarianism, that these offenders simply ‘got away with it’. This model shows that the victims’ rights, and the effects the crime could have on society as a whole, are be considered as one of the most important things in a trial, but that police officers and law related and criminal justice related institutions, have found ways to manipulate the criminal justice system to get certain