The environmental psychology of prisons and jails : creating humane spaces in secure settings / / Richard E. Wener [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790363303321
• Autore: Wener Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-139-41105-5; 1-107-22402-0; 1-280-77365-0; 9786613684424; 1-139-42236-7; 0-511-97968-1; 1-139-41934-X; 1-139-41729-0; 1-139-42138-7; 1-139-42343-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Environment and behavior series
• Classificazione: PSY031000
• Disciplina: 155.9/62
• Soggetti: Environmental psychology; Prisons; Jails; Correctional institutions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; secton 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; section III. A Model and Conclusions: 11. An environmental and contextual model of violence in ; jails and prisons; 12. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.