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Chapter 4 - Critical Thinking
IACA
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Criminal Justice
Professional
09/04/2014

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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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Elements of thinking
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Perception, Mental Models, Concepts., Perspective, Problems and Abstractions

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Elements of reasoning
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Logic, deductive, inductive, aductive, dialogical, dialectical and analogous
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Elements of reasoning
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Assumption, observation, raw data, information, knowledge, theory, evidence, relevance, ambiguity and analysis
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Perception
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- beginning of thought

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Mental Models

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- established thinking patterns
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Concepts -

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dependent on meaning of words
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Perspective

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-thinking relative to the thinker
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Problems

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- precursor to thinking
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Abstractions

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-symbolizing persons, places, thing
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Reasoning Fallacies
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Ad hominem, false dilemma, oversimplication, questionable authority, what should be vs what is, naming vs. explaining
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Ad hominem
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attacking the person instead of the idea
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False dilemma
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told something is only true/not true when there were more options
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Oversimplification
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broad terms instead of specific
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Questionable authority
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lack of credibility
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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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naming vs explaining
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lists vs the who, what, why, where and when
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Creativity
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sociological imagination and cross-fertilization
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Sociological imagination
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understanding the history of individuals and individuals understanding in context of history
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Cross-fertilization
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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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Metacognition
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self awareness, examination, correction in order to avoid bias, prejudice, egocentricity, group think and ethnocentrism.
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