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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements/Dedication -- Preface: Exit the "Queen of Thieves" -- Introduction: Shirley's Last Scam -- Chapter One: Shirley's Beginnings -- Chapter Two: Life Without Harry -- Chapter Three: Back to London -- Chapter Four: Harry's Back in Town -- Chapter Five: Meeting the Forty Thieves -- Chapter Six: Reform School -- Chapter Seven: The Great Escape and Learning to "Roll" -- Chapter Eight: Learning the Hard Way -- Chapter Nine: Let the Good Times Roll -- Chapter Ten: Life at Margate and Meeting Chrissie H. -- Chapter Eleven: Touch Me and …That's It! -- Chapter Twelve: The Wine Gang -- Chapter Thirteen: Adgie's Spiel -- Chapter Fourteen: Leaving Chrissie -- Chapter Fifteen: Life in Brighton -- Chapter Sixteen: When Wally Met Nelly -- Chapter Seventeen: The Wedding and the 'Lovely' Couple -- Chapter Eighteen: Finishing Off Wally and the Voodoo Spells -- Chapter Nineteen: The Escort Business -- Chapter Twenty: Iranian Nights -- Chapter Twenty-One: The Death of Nelly -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Secrets of the Trade -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Costa del Crime -- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Final Chapter -- Afterword -- Glossary -- List of Illustrations -- Footnotes -- Endnotes -- A Note on the Author -- eCopyright.

"Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and 'things' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences"--Page 4 of cover

It has been argued that "knowledge is power." This short essay in two parts will review looking at ideas about power through the lens of Hannah Arendt, we hope to offer some thoughts about how actions and words inform the way power manifests. In particular, about the way that power in reproducing knowledge can be aided by design that shapes intentions in action , choosing either to assist democracy or to erode it --- Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today. Taking 56 terms – from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence – and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis.

This chapter describes a collaborative design-led approach to behaviour change developed in the context of design against crime. It compares this collaborative 'we think' way of working to that of 'nudge' design and argues that the participatory design-led approach delivers a 'fraternal' rather than 'paternal' strategy for behaviour change that is transformative in its means as well as its ends. We outline situational crime prevention (SCP) and other approaches to modifying behaviour to explain how socially responsive design against crime draws upon SCP as well as a participatory, asset-oriented design approach to deliver interventions that reduce opportunities for crime. We introduce case studies from the Design Against Crime Research Centre (Bikeoff and ATM Art Mats) to draw attention to two examples of social design that provide exceptions to the idea (summarized by Niedderer et al. 2014) that designers adopt anecdotal approaches rather than meticulous analysis. Finally, we suggest that 'bottom-up' participatory strategies associated with socially responsive design may deliver more democratic social transformations, than behaviour change 'nudges'.