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 geographical 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/pdf (both available)
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 as well as the answers
There’s also an AI voice file explaining what they need to do.

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. Took me around 2 hours to make.