RT Article
T1 Case construction and the goals of criminal process
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 37
IS 3
SP 319
OP 346
A1 Smith, David J.
LA English
YR 1997
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640120424
AB McConville, Sanders and Leng (1991) have argued that the police play the dominant role in a process that constructs the suspect population and produces prosecution cases. Whereas the public rhetoric of the law proclaims ideals of fairness and equality, the process of case construction is driven by the values of crime control. By contrast, this article shows that the criminal justice system can neither be understood nor justified except by reference to the goal of crime control, and that the values of crime control and due process are closely intertwined. Policing cannot be understood as having the function of producing convictions: it evidently has much wider goals. It follows from the essential functions of the police that they tend to be beyond the direct control of the law; the challenge for social science is to understand why rules and values relating to due process influence the police in some circumstances and not in others
K1 England
K1 Polizei
K1 Staatsanwaltschaft
K1 Strafverfahren
K1 Verdachtsstrategien
K1 Fallkonstruktion
K1 Prinzipien
K1 Vorgehensweisen
K1 Ermittlungsverfahren
K1 Polizeiliches Ermittlungsverfahren