ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses diverse challenges faced by designing products against crime: conflicts and trade-offs, the issue of intelligent replication, the phenomenon of ‘crime harvests’ when new products emerge that are ‘naive to crime’, and how design has to cope with social and technological change and adaptive offenders. It describes ways that design can respond to these challenges, drawing on both design know-how, and the emerging discipline of crime science. The chapter presents both practical examples of products and processes, and frameworks for conceptualising these in systematic and disciplined ways which can support creativity and innovation. It discusses the impact evaluation and evidence for the effectiveness of designing products against crime. Special attention is devoted to Involvement – the ‘people’ side of crime prevention – and the motivation of designers to tackle crime through their products. The process of thinking and perhaps reframing the problem is greatly assisted by visualisation of problems and solutions.
