1. Psychology & Crime
Offender Profiling I

2. Lesson objectives
To examine the purpose, process and effectiveness of offender profiling.
To apply an approach and create your own profile of a killer

3. create a mind map of what you think offender profiling is
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create a mind map of what you think offender profiling is
helps to narrow the number of suspects for police to investigate
Offender profiling

4. Introduction to Offender Profiling
Profiling has become a famous type of psychologist work through popular television programmes such as CSI, Waking the Dead and films like Silence of the Lambs. Real profiling is actually quite misunderstood and its success is debateable. Throughout this topic we will study the effectiveness of profiling. ature=related

5. What is offender profiling?
There is no single definition. Different profilers use different approaches and techniques.
The use of profiling techniques may date back as far as 1888 (the time of Jack the Ripper).
Traditional policing involves analysing physical evidence such as:
Fingerprints
Bloodstains
Shoe prints
DNA evidence.

6. How is offender profiling different from traditional policing?
Criminal profilers looks at additional clues left by the criminal such as:
The type of victim
The type of crime
The location
The time of day or night
Specific features of a crime
What is taken or left behind.
All of these features can tell us more about the type of person who committed the crime

7. What is offender profiling?
Profiles are most commonly used for serious offences such as rape, murder (especially sexual murder), arson and kidnapping.
A criminal will not change their normal behaviour when they commit a crime. This is known as criminal consistency.
A criminal can be therefore be tracked over many crimes, as each time the criminal leaves behind a trace of him or herself.

8. The aims of offender profiling
What are the aims of offender profiling?
Does offender profiling really work? Explain your answer.
(pg.'s in your textbook)
Extension task:
Discuss and write down the strengths and weaknesses of offender profiling.

9. Offender profiling-case study
John Duffy ‘the railway killer’-facts
26 attacks between
3 murders between
All the offences were committed against young women.
All the offences were committed in and around London, near railway stations.

10. Murder victim details activity
Complete the table the by giving the details of 3 of John Duffy’s murder victims.
(pg. 188 in your textbook)

11. Questions
What was similar between the murders of Alison Day and Anne Lock?
What was similar between the murders of Maartje Tamboezer and Anne Lock?

12. David Canter’s profile
Outline the profile created by David Canter.
Do you think the profile was accurate? Explain your answer.

13. Review & reflect
Using your post-it notes, write down 5 facts about profiling and then stick them on the whiteboard at the front of the class