| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Cambridge series in environment and behavior
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Cambridge series in environment and behavior.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental psychology.
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Environmental psychology. |
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Prisons.
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Prisons. |
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Jails.
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Jails. |
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Correctional institutions.
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Correctional institutions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wener, Richard. Environmental psychology of prisons and jails. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521452762 (DLC) 2012002709 (OCoLC)778244880 |
| ISBN |
9781139421386 (electronic book) |
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1139421387 (electronic book) |
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9781139423434 (electronic book) |
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1139423436 (electronic book) |
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9780511979682 (electronic book) |
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0511979681 (electronic book) |
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113941934X |
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9781139419345 |
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9780521452762 (hardback) |
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0521452767 (hardback) |
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9781139419345 |
| Standard No. |
9786613684424 |
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