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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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