Lorraine Gamman is employed as Professor in Design Studies, School of Graphic and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. She is Director of the Design Against Crime (DAC) Research Centre as well as Vice Chair of the Designing Out Crime Association (DOCA). She wrote her PhD on shoplifting at Middlesex University and currently directs practice-based Design Against Crime research projects in between writing crime articles. Her publications include Gone Shopping, the Story of Shirley Pitts, Queen of Thieves (1996) and CD-Rom In the Bag (2000). She has published widely on visual culture, including Female Fetishism: A New Look (1994). Her work has attracted research funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Design Council, Home Office, Department of Health, British Transport Police and Transport for London.