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Author Wener, Richard.

Title The environmental psychology of prisons and jails : creating humane spaces in secure settings / Richard E. Wener
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge series in environment and behavior
Cambridge series in environment and behavior.
Contents Introduction -- Historical view -- The development of direct supervision as a design and management system -- Post-occupancy evaluations of the earliest DS jails -- Effectiveness of direct supervision models -- Correctional space and behavior : privacy, personal space, and territoriality in institutions -- Prison crowding -- The psychology of isolation in prison settings -- The effects of noise in correctional settings -- Windows, light, nature, and color -- An environmental and contextual model of violence in jails and prisons -- Conclusion
Summary 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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Environmental psychology.
Prisons.
Jails.
Correctional institutions.
Environmental Psychology
Prisons
environmental psychology.
correctional institutions (buildings)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
Correctional institutions
Environmental psychology
Jails
Prisons
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012002709
ISBN 9781139421386
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