The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails: Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings (Environment and Behavior)

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Author: Richard E. Wener

Pages: 314

Size: 1.825,87 Kb

Publication Date: June 18,2012

Category: Social Psychology & Interactions



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This book distills thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. It presents a contextual model for just how environment influences the opportunity of violence.S. It offers a critical overview of analysis on jail conditions and of specific problems critical to just how they are experienced and locations them in traditional and theoretical context. This publication uses assessments of the fresh model as a basis for taking into consideration the character of environment and behavior in correctional configurations, and even more broadly in every human configurations. Bureau of Prisons, which got a novel design designed to provide a non-traditional and protected climate for pretrial inmates, and documented the beautiful success of the jails in reducing stress and violence. The study program started with evaluations of brand-new jails that were produced by the U.


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