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Designs on crime

Designing out crime

Some of the top design brains at Britain’s universities are to be put to work in the fight against crime.


The £1.6m programme, led by the Design Council, will work on developing solutions to a wide range of crime-related problems, particularly those which affect young people. 
 
Over the next three years, the UK's top designers will bring together industry, the public sector, designers and crime prevention experts with victims of crime. 

Projects to be undertaken include finding and applying specific design solutions in schools to reduce problems such as bullying, fighting and petty theft.

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There are plans to develop 'Hot' products - innovations in technology, services and product design which help make personal electronics more 'crime-proof'. 

Other schemes which will form part of the designing-out-crime initiative include: 
  • Housing - embedding design-led, crime-reducing approaches in the planning and construction of housing; 
  • Alcohol-related crime - finding design-led approaches to reduce the harm caused by alcohol related antisocial and criminal behaviour, especially assaults in pubs and bars; 
  • Business crime - such as helping businesses to use design to minimise crimes which victimise them, their customers or employees, such as shoplifting and other forms of retail theft. 

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