Crime control

A critical analysis of competing theories relevant to Crime control and Due process, linking to key legislation and or policies relevant to policin Order Description assignemnt should be based around/Linked to the case of the birmingham 6, in particular Paddy Hill. include areas such as; Noble Cause Corruption: Caldero and Crank (2004, p. 29) similarly defined the noble cause as “…a moral commitment to make the world a safer place to live. Put simply, it is getting bad guys off the street.” In all its moral forms, the corruption of noble cause was utilitarian—the achievement of a good greater than the harm caused by any illegal behaviour of the police, Kleinig (2002) Moral reasoning- Criminal justice ethical decision making: made on behalf of society as a whole, a collective moral judgement made in trust by a single person Sherman (1981:14) Utilitarianism and Deontology are two of the most significant, influential ethical theories in Western thought. and various other theories. Birmingham 6: The police told us from the start they didn’t care if we’d done it. They told us they were going to frame us, just to keep the people in there happy. That’s what it’s all been about.” Paddy claims he was told the Six had been selected to take the rap for the bombings by those in the highest level of Government and the only thing to be decided was whether their life sentences would be indeterminate or 40 years.