The environmental psychology of prisons and jails : creating humane spaces in secure settings / Richard E. Wener.
"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 discu...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge series in environment and behavior.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.