Criminal Investigators and Law Enforcement Officers Have Often Referred to Psychological

question 26

Multiple Choice

Criminal investigators and law enforcement officers have often referred to psychological profiling as __________________________.

• A) correctional psychology
• B) selective incapacitation
• C) operant behaviour
• D) autoplastic adaptation
• E) criminal profiling

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