Offender Spatial Activity: Beyond Geographical Offender Profiling - HMY4016

Assessment 2: Quizzes / polls

Formative assessment in the form of  online multiple-choice quizzes, and short, independent, Dragnet exercises will be set by the module leader, detailed in writing in the module handbook, and on Brightspace.

Online Multiple Choice 

Assessment 1: Written practice exercise

Formative assessment in the form of short written response questions and will be set by the module leader, detailed in writing in the module handbook, and on Brightspace.

Written Response

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

This module will examine how offence locations relate to the lives of offenders. You will explore the significance of closeness of the crime locations to key places in the offender’s life and the geometry of the distribution of the offences. You will also study propinquity (the distance offenders travel), morphology (whether investigators can predict the offenders home area), variations in criminality and offender geography and geographical profiling systems.
You will consider how offence locations relate to the lives of offenders. The significance of closeness of the crime locations to key places in the offender’s life, notably his/her home or base and the pattern or overall geometry of the distribution of the offences, being a reflection of internal mental maps of possible offence locations, will be explored. You will also study the importance of narrative theory in shaping criminals ‘mental maps’ as well as geographical profiling systems.

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HMY4016 - Offender Spatial Activity: Beyond Geographical Offender Profiling

Offender Spatial Activity: Beyond Geographical Offender Profiling

Critically contrast behavioural and cognitive approaches to understanding criminal geography. 
Predict key factors which may influence an offender’s geographical activity, including crime location choices.


Use and apply Investigative Psychology principles for the purposes of investigation.

Critically explicate and evaluate Investigative Psychology principles and research relating to offender spatial behaviour. 

Use Geographic Offender Profiling programmes (such as Dragnet) to make investigative recommendations.