The Environmental Psychology Of Prisons And Jails: Creating Humane Spaces In Secure Settings (environment And Behavior)

This book distills thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a nontraditional and safe environment for pretrial inmates, and documented the stunning success of these jails in reducing tension and violence. This book uses assessments of this new model as a basis for considering the nature of environment and behavior in correctional settings, and more broadly in all human settings. It provides a critical review of research on jail environments and of specific issues critical to the way they are experienced and places them in historical and theoretical context. It presents a contextual model for the way environment influences the chance of violence. It Is Often A Curious Experience For Me To Lecture About Design And Behavior In Correctional Settings Because Of The Different Groups Of People With Different Kinds Of Expertise Who May Be In The Audience. When I Am Speaking To Criminal Justice/corrections Professionals Some Of The Concepts I Discuss Are Well Known (such As The History Of Prisons, The Direct Supervision System Of Design And Management, The Nature Of Prison Crowding And Isolation) But Much Of The Psychology, Especially Environmental Psychology -- Including Research Methodology, Stress, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Personal Space And Territoriality, Psychology Of Crowding -- Is Not. If I Speak To Psychologists Just The Opposite Is True, And A Meeting Of Architects Presents A Different Set Of Competencies Entirely. So It Is With This Book. Some Topics Will Be Well-known To Corrections People, Others To Psychologists, And Still Different Ones For Designers. The Hard Part Is Always In Figuring Out Which Elements Of Familiarity Can Be Assumed And Which Need Deeper Background. I Hope That Parts Of This Book Will Be Of Interest To All Of Those Groups -- As Well As Others Such As Policy Makers-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Foreword; Part I. Overview: History Of Correctional Design, Development, And Implementation Of Direct Supervision As An Innovation: 1. Introduction; 2. Historical View; 3. The Development Of Direct Supervision As A Design And Management System; 4. Post Occupancy Evaluations Of The Earliest Ds Jails; 5. Effectiveness Of Direct Supervision Models; Part Ii. Environment-behavior Issues In Corrections: 6. Correctional Space And Behavior; 7. Prison Crowding; 8. The Psychology Of Isolation In Prison Settings; 9. The Effects Of Noise In Correctional Settings; 10. Windows, Light, Nature, And Color; Part Iii. A Model And Conclusions: 11. An Environmental And Contextual Model Of Violence In Jails And Prisons; 12. Conclusion. Richard E. Wener. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References. "It is often a curious experience for me to lecture about design and behavior in correctional settings because of the different groups of people with different kinds of expertise who may be in the audience. When I am speaking to Criminal Justice/Corrections professionals some of the concepts I discuss are well known (such as the history of prisons, the direct supervision system of design and management, the nature of prison crowding and isolation) but much of the psychology, especially environmental psychology -- including research methodology, stress, post occupancy evaluation, personal space and territoriality, psychology of crowding -- is not. If I speak to psychologists just the opposite is true, and a meeting of architects presents a different set of competencies entirely. So it is with this book. Some topics will be well-known to corrections people, others to psychologists, and still different ones for designers. The hard part is always in figuring out which elements of familiarity can be assumed and which need deeper background. I hope that parts of this book will be of interest to all of those groups -- as well as others such as policy makers"-- Provided by publisher "It is often a curious experience for me to lecture about design and behavior in correctional settings because of the different groups of people with different kinds of expertise who may be in the audience. When I am speaking to Criminal Justice/Corrections professionals some of the concepts I discuss are well known (such as the history of prisons, the direct supervision system of design and management, the nature of prison crowding and isolation) but much of the psychology, especially environmental psychology -- including research methodology, stress, post occupancy evaluation, personal space and territoriality, psychology of crowding -- is not. If I speak to psychologists just the opposite is true, and a meeting of architects presents a different set of competencies entirely. So it is with this book. Some topics will be well-known to corrections people, others to psychologists, and still different ones for designers. The hard part is always in figuring out which elements of familiarity can be assumed and which need deeper background. I hope that parts of this book will be of interest to all of those groups -- as well as others such as policy makers"--Résumé de l'éditeur Contents Series Foreword Foreword • Bob Goble Acknowledgments Section One. Overview: History of Correctional Design, Development, and Implementation of Direct Supervision as an Innovation 1 Introduction 2 Historical View 3 The Development of Direct Supervision as a Design and Management System 4 Post-Occupancy Evaluations of the Earliest DS Jails 5 Effectiveness of Direct Supervision Models Section Two. Environment-Behavior Issues in Corrections 6 Correctional Space and Behavior – Privacy, Personal Space, and Territoriality in Institutions 7 Prison Crowding 8 The Psychology of Isolation in Prison Settings 9 The Effects of Noise in Correctional Settings 10 Windows, Light, Nature, and Color Section Three. A Model and Conclusions 11 An Environmental and Contextual Model of Violence in Jails and Prisons 12 Conclusion Notes Index