Prison architecture : policy, design, and experience / edited by Leslie Fairweather and Seán McConville.

Title & Author:

Prison architecture : policy, design, and experience / edited by Leslie Fairweather and Seán McConville.

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2000.

Description:

xvii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The architectural realization of penal ideas / Séan McConville -- English prison design / Ian Dunbar and Leslie Fairweather -- Psychological effects of the prison environment / Leslie Fairweather -- Design and the likelihood of prison assaults / Richard Wener -- Architects and the prison experience / Sir Andrew Derbyshire -- Does design matter? / Leslie Fairweather -- Prison policy, construction and design / Sir Richard Tilt -- Building for growth / Elaine Bailey -- Responding to a fourfold increase in population : the experience of the Federal Bureau of Prisons / Scott Higgins -- Prisons in the USA : cost, quality and community in correctional design / James Kessler -- Prisons in the USA : supermax -- the bad and the mad / Norval Morris -- Prisons in Europe : France / Jean François Jodry and Michel Zulberty -- Prisons in Europe : the Netherlands / Peter van Hulten -- Public/private partnerships / Leslie Fairweather -- Providing the complete prison package / Michael Gander -- What needs to be done? / Sir David Ramsbotham -- Prison architecture and the politics of reform / Stephen Shaw.

Summary:

Provides an international perspective on the development of prison design. Explores important themes in current penal philosophies and legislation as well as presenting a fresh look at the policies and designs of today and the future.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0750642122
9780750642125

Subject:

Prisons Great Britain Design and construction.
Prisons Grande-Bretagne Conception et construction.
Prisons Design and construction.
Gefängnisbau
Fängelser.
Fängelser historia.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Fairweather, Leslie.
McConville, Seán, 1943-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212498
Call No.: NA6780.A1 P7 2000
Status: Available

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