The consensus model includes those that are concerned about the public order, public order and crime control. Their idea is that the criminal justice system should work together in harmony with one another. It is felt that each agency should be considered a subsystem within the larger system of the overall criminal justice system (Cronkhite, n.d.). The consensus model makes the assumption that it will operate very business like an is expected to be smooth because of the cooperation between the various sections (Cronkhite, 2013, p. 202).
In retrospect conflict process model is distinctly different from that of the consensus