Geographical Profiling Activity - Catch the criminal - Bottom Up Approach - Forensic Psychology

The activity gets students to apply their knowledge of the bottom up approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling to 2 crimes cases.

They have a 2 maps, 2 lists of crimes. They have to work out, using geogprahical profiling:

• If it is a marauder/commuter (they would need to have been taught this but most teachers do as part of geographical profiling).

• Where their home base is

• Building up an offender profile based on the evidence they have.

This resource includes:

2 maps (best printed A3 doubled sided) - publisher
2 lists of crimes (best printed A4 double sided) - word - be careful, teacher answers are on the last page.
Powerpoint introduction and instructions for the activity.

This took my 4 classes 20-30 minutes. They loved doing it and it will definitely become a staple of my teaching. It is based in Peterborough but will work anywhere. Best taught straight after the AO1 on geographical profiling and before AO3.