Your perspectives on design against crime

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Addressing: Design Innovation in Public Services

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The big questions

How can designers create useful, desirable objects for consumers and at the same time reduce temptation and opportunity for criminals?
Will it be hard to engage manufacturers? After all, they sell more when people need to replace their stolen items with the latest models.
Good designers spend time getting into the heads of their users. How easy is it to understand the mindsets of abusers and misusers too?
Although crime figures are falling, fear of crime is not. What can designers do to make people feel more secure?

Sebastian Conran

Designer and founder member of the Design and Technology Alliance

Crime doesn’t pay - but it does cost. We need to think of ways to incentivise industry to take responsibility for crime and think about adding value to products with embedded security. Anticipation is the key to design and to crime.

Jacqui Smith

Home Secretary

The role that good design can play in cutting crime is well established but success depends on effective partnerships between Government, the police and the design industry. We have made a clear commitment in last year’s Crime Strategy to bring design into the centre of our fight against crime.

Recent submissions

Noleet said on 21/08/07 at 17.19

I think this is an impressive and outstanding initiative. It would be even greater if this initiative focused on other countries with greater crime rates like Colombia (where I live). Still, it is just great to learn about it. Using design as a non-violent tool to reduce crime is just genius.