What is a Psychological Profiling?

What will be an ideal response?


The attempt to categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioral clues they provide.

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Implementation of "back-door" strategies, such as parole and work release, as a solution to prison crowding are examples of the:

a. null strategy b. construction strategy c. population reduction strategy d. intermediate sanctions strategy

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Traditionally, involuntary manslaughters are committed with malice aforethought, meaning that the offender planned to kill someone and then did so

a. True b. False

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High quality Japanese automobiles are actually a result of the initial efforts of American engineers

a. True b. False

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One evaluation revealed that gun court defendants were rearrested less oftenthan a similar cohort of offenders who did not participate in gun court

a. True b. False

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