8th European Society of Criminology Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2008

Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Shane Johnson of Bikeoff were invited to present at the eighth European Society of Criminology conference which was held at the University of Edinburgh. This paper presented findings from the recent evaluation of two design-based interventions intended to reduce opportunities for bicycle theft: a communication-based strategy in the form of stickers attached to bicycle parking stands, and prototype bicycle parking stands. The paper opens by describing the problem of bicycle theft and its relevance to current policy targets regarding sustainable transport. Following the description of the two design-based interventions, findings are presented from the evaluations of their impact of intervention on cyclists locking practice. Finally, the implications of the findings for further research are discussed.

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American Society of Criminology Annual Conference.  St Louis, USA. November 2008.

Lorraine Gamman, Shane Johnson, Aiden Sidebottom and Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff were invited to present the poster Design Against Crime: Reducing the Risk of Bicycle Theft  at this conference.
The American Society of Criminology annual 2009 meeting, held in St. Louis, Missouri, featured sessions on evidence-based crime prevention, corporate crime prevention, violence and animal cruelty, school-based crime prevention and innovative approaches to crime prevention. Poster sessions were intended to present research in a format that is easy to scan and absorb quickly and was designed to facilitate more in-depth discussion of the research than is typically possible in a symposium format. The ‘Design Against Crime: Reducing the Risk of Bicycle Theft’ poster looked at recent research findings emanating from the BikeOff 2 project which aimed to better understand how cyclists lock their bicycles in public spaces and if targeted design-based interventions can reduce the likelihood of theft.

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Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Shane Johnson of Bikeoff were invited to present Evaluating Efforts to Design Out Bicycle Theft at the eighth European Society of Criminology conference  held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2008.

This presented findings from the recent evaluation of two design-based interventions intended to reduce opportunities for bicycle theft: a communication-based strategy in the form of stickers attached to bicycle parking stands, and prototype bicycle parking stands. The paper opens by describing the problem of bicycle theft and its relevance to current policy targets regarding sustainable transport. Following the description of the two design-based interventions, findings are presented from the evaluations of their impact of intervention on cyclists locking practice. Finally, the implications of the findings for further research are discussed.

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Johnson, S. D., Sidebottom, A. and Thorpe, A (June 2008). Bicycle theft. Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Problem- Specific Guides Series No 52, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. ISBN 1-932582-87-8.

The U.S. Department of Justice regularly commission problem-specific guides intended for police and crime prevention practitioners. These guides compile and summarize knowledge about specific crime problems, and catalogue responses which have successfully reduced the harm caused by those problems. This peer-reviewed guide addresses the problem of bicycle theft. First, it describes the problem of bicycle theft and reviews the factors that contribute to it. Second, it identifies a series of questions to help improve the analysis of bicycle theft and the evaluation of bicycle theft interventions.  Finally, it reviews responses to bicycle theft and describes the findings of evaluative research and operational policing.

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