What Has Research on the Profiling of Individual Terrorists Demonstrated

question 47

Multiple Choice

What has research on the profiling of individual terrorists demonstrated?

• A)That terrorists generally fit a common set of characteristics
• B)That terrorists are known to always be young men with strong religious convictions
• C)That there is no particular psychological attribute that can be used to describe the terrorist personally
• D)That individual profiling is more useful than group profiling

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