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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2012
      18 June 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511979682
      9780521452762
      9781107477735
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979682
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Criminology, Planning and Urban Geography, Psychology, Sociology
      Series:
      Environment and Behavior
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Criminology, Planning and Urban Geography, Psychology, Sociology
    Series:
    Environment and Behavior
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    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.

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    'Graduate students and professionals in the fields of architecture and design, social work and psychology, and criminal justice and criminology, as well as those entering correctional training academies, will benefit from this volume, not just as a guide to 'best practices', but also as a base for further investigation.'

    Russ Immarigeon Source: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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