The holy spoon

The past month I have been looking at disabling objects and how if disabled they will not attract people to take them.

Here's an simple example, a spoon. whats its main function, to hold but most importantly to collect and store liquid whilst transporting.

How can this be disabled?By putting a big dirty hole in it of course...rendered..USELESS!..whats the point in stealing this?

Project update

Project since presentation has gone a bit slower. I'm trying to bang out another video dealing with the more non tangible aspects of theft. Having computer issues just now but hopefully will be sorted tomorrow and get one up asap. I am finding that filming parts of my project is helping me understand it a bit better and will hopefully help others aswell

Secondary Research

The past week I have been looking at mostly secondary research, printing of shedloads of ex-trees filled with info on retail crime. This seems to be an interesting area to go into and although there is alot of crime prevention all ready in place here I still think there is room for improvement.Planning to do some interviews but keep a wide scope on theft as a whole and not bin anything at the moment.

Other things/ideas/solutions/projects
that have cropped up,
Trolley theft
Environmental theft, forest fires.(currently in California)
Helping theft, how can I help people theive?
Online Networking sites (is anything secure)
Time theft
Ideas theft (copyright, patent)

Top ten most shoplifted items

The past week I have mainly been looking into theft on as wide a scale as possible. The first area I mainly looked at was shoplifting, the causes and effects it has on people.

The other week I shoplifted from a big supermarket(bigger shop mainly to minimise profit loss for them!), just to check out what it was about. I only nicked a piece of chewing gum but because it was the first time I shoplifted, I did feel nervous completing the act!

I have collected data of the most items shoplifted and was surprised to see alcohol so far up the list at number 2. I guess this is mainly due to people nicking it because of the price of it and also due to a habit perhaps.