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| Critical Thinking in crime analysis |
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| the disciplined, self-directed and recognizes the strengths and weaknesses with the goal of improving ones thinking process. |
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Perception, Mental Models, Concepts., Perspective, Problems and Abstractions |
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| Logic, deductive, inductive, aductive, dialogical, dialectical and analogous |
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| Assumption, observation, raw data, information, knowledge, theory, evidence, relevance, ambiguity and analysis |
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| - established thinking patterns |
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| dependent on meaning of words |
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| -thinking relative to the thinker |
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| -symbolizing persons, places, thing |
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| Ad hominem, false dilemma, oversimplication, questionable authority, what should be vs what is, naming vs. explaining |
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| attacking the person instead of the idea |
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| told something is only true/not true when there were more options |
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| broad terms instead of specific |
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| what should be vs what is |
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| lack of acceptance of reality, over-idealization |
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| lists vs the who, what, why, where and when |
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| sociological imagination and cross-fertilization |
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| understanding the history of individuals and individuals understanding in context of history |
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| using knowledge from other displines |
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| Problem solving techniques |
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| analysis, categorizing/classifying, challenging assumptions, evaluation, judgment, deductive, inductive, verbalization, brainstorming, visualization and taking another perspective |
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| self awareness, examination, correction in order to avoid bias, prejudice, egocentricity, group think and ethnocentrism. |
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