ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the design skills and competences can enable crime and insecurity to be addressed effectively, without undermining other objectives important to clients, users and wider society, such as convenience, functionality and style. Design against Crime encourages designers to 'think thief' – that is to understand and consider the potential crime issues surrounding their design. Designing against crime played a role in the replacement of the Penny Black postage stamp with the Penny Red. Design against Crime seeks to raise awareness amongst designers of their role in crime prevention, and provide practical guidance and examples to support them in their efforts to understand and improve security. Holistic design considers the product, place or environment being designed as part of a larger, interconnected system. There are several benefits to embedding crime prevention within the early stages of the design process. There is an assumption that additional security will make a design unattractive.
