U.S. Department of Justice

Thinking Errors Defined

Publication year: 2010 | Cataloged on: Jun. 13, 2012

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  • 025987

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  • 2010
  • 8 pages

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Thumbnail preview ANNOTATION: The common criminal thinking errors are clarified in order to enable you to better recognize the behaviors of the offenders you work with. These thinking errors are anger, assuming, avoiding the hot iron of the past, blaming, confusion, excuses, fact stacking, fronting, grandiosity or maximizing, minimizing, helplessness, hopovers (changing the subject), hot shot or cockiness, the “I can’t” attitude, “It’s mine” or entitlement, justifying, keeping score, lack of empathy, “Let’s fight” or splitting, lying, making fools of, Mr. Goodguy, “my way or no way,” “Pet me” (meet my needs), powerplay (authority conflict), redefining, refusal to accept obligations, refusal to acknowledge fear, secretiveness, seeking sympathy, silent power, slacking, uniqueness, vagueness, victim stance, “You’re ok then I’m ok.”
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