This debate affirms the need to be sensitive to the existence of both crime control or efficiency values and due process or fairness values in legal and organizational cultures. Unfortunately, all the participants in the debate, particularly David Smith, follow Packer in assuming that efficient police investigations and prosecutions actually control crime. That assumption is critically assessed in this paper.
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