When it comes to the law, crime has not ever been legal. All offenses have a mind in them that thought or felt or has otherwise failed to function properly to commit the offense, and all reactions to the offense have a system of investigators and lawyers and judges and correctional officers trying to decipher that mind. The area in which criminal psychology falls lies between these two realities. It considers the nature of offending, their thinking and how to use their thinking to help prevent offending and to serve them and the wider community justice. This paper discusses the development of the discipline from the
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