RISKY PRODUCTS AND CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN
Keywords:
crime, prevention, risk products, designAbstract
Some products are more vulnerable to theft because of their specific characteristics. The literature on situational crime prevention has already indicated the general characteristics of these products, which make them more likely to be the target of the perpetrators, and these characteristics are known by the acronym "CRAVED". Also, some researchers have pointed to general characteristics that should help protect at-risk products from attack and that should help deter offenders from stealing them, which are known by the acronym "IN SAFE HANDS". Influenced by these recommendations, crime prevention is increasingly emphasizing the importance of designing products and environments to reduce the risk of crime and to improve the protection of vulnerable products from theft. Therefore, it is justified that, in practice, crime analysis is aimed at detecting products that are the target of offenders and identifying their characteristics in order to find appropriate safeguards. These safeguards should be clearly defined in cooperation between police and manufacturers of vulnerable products, with the support of the competent state authorities, consumer representatives and other interested parties. At the same time, it is necessary, as part of crime analysis, to work on the detection of those products that are misused for committing crimes. Such an approach seems to be still underdeveloped in the practice of crime prevention.
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