The panel is exploring the crime potential of new technologies and identifying opportunities for using advances in technology to reduce crime, is advocating the "designing out" of crime in products and environments so that crime potential is reduced at the earliest possible stage, is ensuring that other Foresight panels consider crime and crime prevention when taking their work forward, is engaging a wide audience of stakeholders at all stages of its work, and will make recommendations for action when it reports in November 2000. The panel believes that crime will always be either acquisitive (property theft and fraud) or expressive (violence, vandalism, and disorder). In addition, the panel recognizes the different types of criminals, ranging from opportunistic to career. The panel also believes that certain characteristics of society will affect crime in the future, such as individuality and independence, the use of information communication technologies, and globalization. Ways in which the panel believes crime will change in response to new technologies are identified.