The due process model is also concerned with equality in the
sense that all accused regardless of wealth or social status should
receive equal treatment by, for example, being represented by a
lawyer.52 Minorities and the poor bear the brunt of police abuse
and prosecutions. S It is assumed that protecting the due process
rights of all accused will protect the rights of the most disadvantaged.
Perhaps because he wrote before victimization studies and
feminist and critical realist scholarship documented disproportionate
victimization among the disadvantaged, Packer did not
consider that crime victims are also frequently from the same dis-