PowerPoint (6 slides) and one Word Document that examines the reasons why the police failed to catch Jack the Ripper in 1888. The lesson includes information on police failings (such as a lack of detectives, lack of co-operation between forces), issues with the environment of Whitechapel (alleyways, migrant populations, adversarial relationships with the police), and lack of technology (DNA, CCTV, fingerprinting).
Activities include
- Ranking activity on the likely effectiveness of various tactics used to try and catch Jack the Ripper.
- Source analysis question on why the police did not offer rewards during the investigation.
- Source analysis exercise on the utility of a witness statement in aiding the police to solve the Whitechapel Murders.
- Evidence organisation task to identify three or four larger factors that help explain why the police were unable to catch Jack the Ripper.
- Source analysis task on the reasons Charles Warren lost his job as Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
- Concluding discussion / paragraph on whether police failings were the most important reason why the murders were never solved.
Designed for the teaching of Key Stage 3 History.
Lesson Length: 1hr depending on pace.
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