Prison architect prisons folder plus#

In more recent work, demand for the building of prisons to stimulate local economic development and employment has been identified, especially on the part of small rural towns in the United States, with a shift towards policymakers actively locating prisons in вЂlaggingвЂ™ communities. Although this literature has tended to focus on the traditional opposition of communities to location of prisons close by, (based on local residentsвЂ™ concerns that a prison may lower property values, increase levels of crime, endanger their safety through escapes, attract вЂundesirableвЂ™ elements and damage the reputation of the area), there is increasingly an alternative perspective, of the generation of вЂprofit through punishmentвЂ™. The studentship will draw upon existing research within both criminology and carceral geography on prison siting and the relationships between prisons and local communities. It is premised on a understanding that, despite the wealth of research on local responses to proposed prison building projects, the impact of prisons on local economic development, and the вЂњNIMBYвЂќ response, the specific impact of prison architecture and aesthetics on those who live within the immediate vicinity of prisons is not known. The PhD studentship extends the reach of this question to a new and different group вЂ“ members of local communities which surround prisons. The main research project asks what impact the architecture, design, and spatial organization of prisons has on the experience of imprisonment, on the behaviour of those who occupy and move through carceral spaces, and on staff-prisoner and staff-management relationships.

The project will focus on two newly built UK prisons, and contrast these with two prisons in Norway and Denmark, where penal philosophies differ greatly from those in the UK. The project investigators, Professor Yvonne Jewkes (University of Leicester, UK) and Dr Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK), will be addressing two over-arching questions вЂ“ how are penal aims and philosophies (that is, what prison is вЂforвЂ™) expressed in prison architecture and design, and how effective is prison architecture, design and technology (ADT) in conveying and delivering that penal purpose? The study seeks to meet its objectives by (a) studying the process of designing new prison buildings in order to understand what it is that architects are asked to deliver and how they achieve this, and (b) studying ADTвЂ™s impacts and effects on a range of end users, focusing on the experience of occupying and moving in and around prison spaces, in relation to prisonersвЂ™ quality of life and wellbeing, perceptions of penal legitimacy, compliance with the regime, prisoner-staff relations, staff work satisfaction and so on. The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have made an award for a research project entitled вЂњвЂFear-suffused environmentsвЂ™ or potential to rehabilitate? Prison architecture, design and technology and the lived experience of carceral spacesвЂќ. Due to funding restrictions, this studentship is open to UK and EU applicants only.ДЄbout the main project and grant-linked studentship:

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plus tuition fees at the UK/EU rate for up to three years (full-time only). This is an ESRC-funded grant-linked studentship which provides a stipend of ВЈ13,726 p.a. Yvonne Jewkes (Department of Criminology, University of Leicester).ДЄpplications are invited for the above studentship commencing 1st January 2014. Supervisors: Dr Dominique Moran, Senior Lecturer in Human and Carceral Geography (GEES) and (externally) Prof. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), University of Birmingham, UK

The role of prison architecture and aesthetics in the relationship between prisons and host communities.