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Any vocation that evolves into a profession necessarily proceeds through a multistep process. The process includes the creation of a full-time occupation, establishment of a training school reflecting and expanding the profession’s theoretical underpinnings, formation of professional associations, and formation of a code of ethics. Many criminal justice scholars and practitioners argue that policing has evolved into a profession. Furthermore, some scholars and practitioners specifically point to the sophistication of modern criminal investigative techniques, including the use of criminal profiling techniques, as evidence of law enforcement’s professional status. However, upon consideration of profiling as a professional subspecialty of criminal investigation, one is compelled to conclude that criminal profiling does not contribute significantly to the notion of policing as a profession.
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Bumgarner, J.B. (2008). Profiling and Professionalization of Criminal Investigation. In: Kocsis, R.N. (eds) Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-049-6_16
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