The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails: Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings

Description

This book distils 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 US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a non-traditional and safe environment for pre-trial 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. 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