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PROVOCATEUR – an individual from enemy forces
who is deliberately introduce in our custody with a
specific mission of causing some unfavorable action
or reaction on our part.

PROWORD – a pronounceable word or phrase that
has been assigned a meaning to speed up message
handling on radio nets that use radio and
telephone.

PROXIMATE CAUSE – the proximate cause of an
injury is the one which produces the injury either
directly or thru other causes which it sets in motion
and thru which it acts in a natural line of causation.
It is the cause that directly produces the effects
without the intervention of any other cause.

PROXIMITY – the amount of space between the
participants, who should be close enough to touch-
neither too close, which causes discomfort, nor too
far apart, which causes a loss of connectivity.

PROXY – a person who is charged with representing
another.

PSEUDO-CRIMINAL – one of the Lombroso’s type of
criminal which he describe as one who kill in self-
defense.

PSYCHIATRIC CRIMINOLOGY – the science that
deals with the study of crime through forensic
psychiatry, the study of criminal behavior in terms
of motives and drives that strongly relies on the
individual.

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