Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. Are You Sitting Comfortably? in Saville G (ed) International CPTED Association, Newsletter, Vol 9, 2010.

Article on the role of design in reducing anti-social behaviour linked to public seating written in response to an invitation by Gregg Saville, the Editor of CPTED’s International newsletter. The newsletter communicates with the crime prevention community, particularly looking at crime prevention through environmental design.

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Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. (March 2010) Hot Stuff? Crimestoppers [online]. Article on the role of design in reducing theft of ‘hot products’ written in response to an invitation by Crimestoppers to write an article to feature in their online magazine as recommended by the Home Office. Available here

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Thorpe, A., Johnson, S. D. and Sidebottom, A. (2009). Using targeted publicity to reduce opportunities for bicycle theft: A demonstration and replication. European Journal of Criminology. European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 6, No. 3, 267-286 (2009)

DOI: 10.1177/1477370809102168

Johnson (Co-I, Bikeoff 2) and Sidebottom (RA, Bikeoff 2) are from the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL.

This paper was (unusually for the journal in question) accepted for publication without revision. A reviewer commented that [the paper] is well written and has clear scientific and policy value. Experiments are (still) relatively rare in criminology.” This comment highlights the scarcity of truly interdisciplinary work between design practitioners and criminologists and the esteem in which such rigorous and pragmatic research is held.

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Thorpe, A., Gamman, L., Ekblom, P., Willcocks, M., Aiden Sidebottom, A. and Johnson, S.D. (2009). ‘Bike Off 2 - Catalysing Anti Theft Bike, Bike Parking And Information Design For The 21st Century: An Open Innovation Research Approach’ in Inns, T. (ed.) Designing for the 21st Century. Gower Publishing Ltd. P238 – 258 ISBN: 978-1-4094-0240-4.

Johnson and Sidebottom are from the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL.The chapter reviews the methodology developed and deployed within the Bikeoff 2 project and notes the significance of this methodology in maximising research outputs and impact.

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Special edition of the peer reviewed Built Environment Journal co-edited by Gamman, L. and Armitage, R.(eds.), Sustainability via Security: A New Look. Vol 35, no. 3. P403-419. Alexandrine Press. ISSN 0263-7960.

This is the first journal that has joined up the crime and sustainability debate in one issue. The journal contains the article ‘Less is more - what design against crime can contribute to sustainability’ which was written by Gamman and Thorpe.

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“Manual de aparcamientos de bicicletas” | IDAE - BACC | 2009

Bikeoff/ Marcus Willcocks have consulted on, and contributed advice, text and visual content to a new  Bicycle Parking Manual, authored by BACC, that was first presented at the recent  Seville conference for the Public Bicycle. The manual, published in Castellano, is the  first of its kind, directed at cycle parking and built-environment stakeholders, authorities and specifiers, throughout Spain. It was funded by the Spanish Institute for Energy Saving and Diversification (IDAE) and the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce. A pdf of the manual can be downloaded here. Bikeoff’s ongoing exchange with BACC and other cycle user and cycle security groups in Spain and other parts of Europe allowed them to draw on their research and in-practice experience to make informed contributions to the publication.

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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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AHRC (2008). Fighting Crime Through More Effective Design. Brochure. Swindon: AHRC. The document communicates the impact of Arts And Humanities research and was published in 2008 on the AHRC website and was one of a series of exemplar case studies. It includes DACRC’s Bikeoff project and describes the public benefits, human capital and contributions to design of the project. It also includes, thanks to an assessment by Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC), projected future economic “benefit to Society” calculations.

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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. (September 2008) presented the paper Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design for Public Space, Design In Public Space: Safety conference, Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise, Cieszyn, Poland

The paper Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design for Public Space argued that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from public space, in a sustainable way, rather than solving problems after they have arisen, with inconsiderate design. Bikeoff designs and exemplars were shown and discussed.

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