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This workshop considers how design can contribute to supporting people’s desistance from crime. By design, we are not referring to a singular practice such as architecture, but the plural practices of design involved in the design of services, interactions, strategies, programs, products, buildings, landscapes, digital services, and interventions among others. Human-centred and customer-centred design approaches are a core way governments and organisations are developing services including those related to the justice system. To articulate what designing for desistance is, and its potential value, we utilise case studies of design projects undertaken by design researchers at the Designing Out Crime (DOC) research centre, Sydney Australia. DOC was closed in 2021, and while the work continues by numerous team members, this workshop is an opportunity to reflect, makes sense of and present a path forward for this work around designing for desistance. From this collection of case studies and practice, we articulate fundamental principles for a designing for desistance approach. This workshop concludes by describing a program of research proposed to substantiate the approach, develop new knowledge about plural design practices in these contexts and most critically create impact by supporting people’s desistance from crime.