International Crime Science Conference, British Library, London. July 2007

Professor Paul Ekblom and Aiden Sidebottom of Bikeoff presented Striking Sparks: Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design at the International Crime Science Conference. This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to applied practitioners (both social research and hard science) in that field.

This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to applied practitioners (both social research and hard science) in that field. Ekblom also gave this presentation at the International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis seminar at UCL, London in July 2007.

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State community safety and crime prevention strategy renewal forum, Western Australia Government Conference. Perth, Australia. July 2008.

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to give the keynote address at the State community safety and crime prevention strategy renewal forum. He presented Crime prevention: International experience. This presentation on general crime prevention drew for illustration on a range of practical examples, some of which came from the Bikeoff project.

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Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University, Spokane WA USA, February 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to staff and students at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute in Washington in February 2008. He presented Less Crime, by Design. This is a general overview of Design Against Crime and draws on a range of Design Against Crime experiences and frameworks including those developed during the Bikeoff Project.

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Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University, Spokane WA USA, February 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to staff and students at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute in Washington in February 2008. He presented Less Crime, by Design. This is a general overview of Design Against Crime and draws on a range of Design Against Crime experiences and frameworks including those developed during the Bikeoff Project.
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Australia-New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers’ Group, Canberra, Australia. November 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to the Australia-New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers’ Group, Canberra in November 2008. He presented Introducing Design Against Crime …As we do it.  The Senior Officers’ Group comprises all the state and national heads of crime prevention in Australia and New Zealand. This presentation reviewed the work of the DAC Research Centre and illustrated it with our own projects including Bikeoff work.

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Australian Federal Attorney General’s Department, Canberra. Australia, December 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to the Australian Federal Attorney General’s Department in Canberra in December 2008. He presented Crime Prevention Through Surveillance and Design…or AGD, CCTV, CPTED, ASB. This presentation to the department responsible for policy and implementation of crime prevention in the whole of Australia, discussed a range of issues surrounding CCTV, including how to manage public demand; it also presented an analytic approach to surveillance which derived in part from work on Bikeoff.

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Ekblom, P. (2008). Final report WPA2 of ‘Bike Off 2 – Catalysing Anti Theft Bike, Bike Parking and Information Design for the 21st Century’.

Standard generation through application of CCO framework. Supported by AHRC/EPSRC Designing for the 21st Century grant. Paul Ekblom with assistance from Adam Thorpe, Lorraine Gamman, Shane Johnson, Aiden Sidebottom and Chris Campbell. Final report (132pp) describing theory, methodology and procedure of risk analysis based on extensive evolution of Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity framework, illustrating detailed risk analysis in practice, and setting out comprehensive theory-based design guidance for bike stands and bike parking facilities.
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The following presentations visualise the work Professor Ekblom has done for ‘Bike Off 2 – Catalysing Anti Theft Bike, Bike Parking and Information Design for the 21st Century’, supported by AHRC/EPSRC grant.

The Thinking Thief: Crime Frameworks for Design Against Crime (November 2007) presentation originated as a brief to the MA Industrial Design students at CSM for an indoor bike park.ing project, and was delivered on 7 Nov 2007. This has come and gone but I have continued to modify the presentation in light of feedback.  The approach developed here can readily be modified for any other DAC brief. The approach is taken further and complemented in the presentation Risk analysis design guide: Using theory to analyse crime risks and generate design guidance for secure bike parking, also on this website. I am grateful for their inputs to Chris Campbell, Shane Johnson, Lorraine Gamman, Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Marcus Willcocks. A text version of this design methodology can be downloaded here.

The Risk analysis design guide: Using theory to analyse crime risks and generate design guidance for secure bike parking (October 2008) presentation is a synthesis of work undertaken, for ‘Bike Off 2 – Catalysing Anti Theft Bike, Bike Parking and Information Design for the 21st Century’, supported by AHRC/EPSRC grant.  It aims to document, and convey, an approach to generating Design Against Crime guidance that is based on theoretical frameworks for crime prevention, available at www.designagainstcrime.com click on ‘crimeframeworks’. Guidance based on these frameworks complements that produced via gleaning existing practical experience of secure bike parking design.
The presentation builds on an earlier one, Thinking Thief:  Crime Frameworks for Design Against Crime, also on this website. While the focus here is on secure bike parking, the intention has been to design an approach that is of generic utility.

More traditional documentation is in the accompanying report ‘Standard generation through application of CCO framework’, also on the bikeoff website www.bikeoff.org . I am grateful for their inputs to Chris Campbell, Shane Johnson, Lorraine Gamman, Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Marcus Willcocks
CCO Dynamic – web pages disseminating new framework derived from this project at www.designagainstcrime.com.

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Departmental seminar, Sociology, University of Surrey. November 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff gave a departmental seminar entitled Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design at the University of Surrey. This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to a range of social researchers.

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Adam Thorpe, Prof. Paul Ekblom and Lorraine Gamman spoke with the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit about bike crime in order explain the concepts behind Design Against Crime and to advise the Home Office on its strategy.

http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/design-alliance

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