ABSTRACT
As researchers and practitioners in socially responsive design our work with the Design Against Crime Research Centre at the University of the Arts, London, seeks to change things for the better for those victimized by crime. This includes those who suffer loss or injury by being subjected to criminal acts and those who perpetrate these acts, and in doing so damage not just the lives of others but also their own linked to prosecution and punishment. It also includes the citizens of wider society who share in the fi nancial burden of publicly funding the “cops, courts and corrections,” which in England and Wales in 1999/2000 was estimated to cost around £60 billion and rising ( Brand and Price 2000 ).
