The psychiatric forensic nurse describes her work as follows: "I apply my knowledge of psychopathology as I investigate and reconstruct the crime and attempt to understand the criminal's reasoning process.This allows me to compile information on the type of individual who most likely would have committed the crime." The work the nurse describes is that of the:

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Criminal profilers attempt to provide law enforcement with specific information and the type of individual who would have committed a certain crime.Profilers use behavioral and psychological indicators left at violent crime scenes and apply their understanding of psychopathology,attempt to reconstruct the crime,formulate hypotheses,and develop a profile,which is then tested against known data.The other options refer to roles the psychiatric forensic nurse may fill,but none of these roles fits the description given in the scenario.

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