ABSTRACT
It was observed above that the rational actor model had gone out of fashion as an explanatory model of criminal behaviour with the rise of the predestined actor tradition at the end of the nineteenth century. It was nevertheless to return very much to favour with the rise of the ‘new’ political right – or populist conservatism – during the last quarter of the twentieth century. It was however a revival where the purist Classical tradition of ‘due process’ promoted in particular by Beccaria was to be very much superseded by the interests of the proponents of the crime control model of criminal justice.
