The USA PATRIOT Act was passed in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Section 213 of the law legalized “Sneak and Peek” search warrants, which allowed law enforcement officers to search an individual’s home or business without alerting them first. The rationale was that authorities needed to expand their discretion in order to protect America from terrorism. To which criminal justice model would this approach to counterterrorism belong?
due process
conflict theory
crime control
deterrence