Author: Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Remarks on the Form and Construction of Prisons
Author: Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Forms of Constraint
Author: Norman Bruce JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252074011
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rigorously documented and generously illustrated, Forms of constraint surveys prison architecture from earliest times to the present. Embedding his discussion of architectural detail in a history of social ideas about prisoners and imprisonment, criminologist Norman Johnston considers the architectural design and features of prisons in light of the purposes they were meant to serve. Johnston describes the preferred types of prison layout in various eras and locations. He assesses the success or failure of building elements in fulfilling goals such as prisoner isolation, segregation by gender or by severity of crime, adequate hygiene, rehabilitative activities, and surveillance of prisoners and guards. As goals and the consequent demands on the physical structure changed, new templates for the ideal prison emerged. Johnston traces the gradual rise of prison design as an architectural specialty and profiles the early figures and organizations devoted to the field, including William Blackburn, the first architect to specialize in prison design; John Haviland, architect of the influential Pennsylvania prison style; and Jeremy and Samuel Bentham, who conceived the much-discussed but never built Panopticon. He describes changes in prison design as architecture and penal philosophy leadership passed from one country to another. He also provides broad coverage of penal methods and prison architecture around the world.
Building Types and Built Forms
Author: Philip SteadmanPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1783062592
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Building Types and Built Forms weaves two books together in alternating chapters: one about the history of building types, the other about their geometry. The first book follows the histories of some common types of building: houses, hospitals, schools, offices and prisons. Examples are drawn from the 19th and early 20th centuries in France, America and Britain, with the central focus on London. They include the 'pavilion hospitals' associated with the name of Florence Nightingale, English Board and Modernist schools of the 1920s and 30s, tall office buildings in Chicago and New York, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary, and 'radial prisons' on the model of Cherry Hill and Pentonville. The second book takes these histories and uses them to explore how the forms of these buildings are constrained by some of the basic functions of architecture: to provide daylight and ventilation to the interior, to provide access to all rooms, or to allow occupants to see from one part of a building to another. A new way of thinking about these 'worlds of geometrical possibility' is introduced, in which the forms of many buildings can be catalogued and laid out systematically in 'morphospaces', or theoretical spaces of forms. As building types change over time, they come to occupy different positions within the worlds of possible forms. Building Types and Built Forms is filled with over 400 illustrations, many drawn especially for the book. It offers a new theoretical approach, combined with a series of historical accounts of building types, some well known, some less familiar. It should appeal to academics, practitioners, historians and students of architecture.
An Account of the General Penitentiary at Millbank ; Containing a Statement of the Circumstances which Led to Its Erection, a Description of the Building, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix, on the Form and Construction of Prisons
Author: George Peter HolfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Notes on the Building of English Prisons
Author: R. G. AlfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders
Author: Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845
Author: Orlando Faulkland LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In the attempt to decipher a number of strange events after he moves into an old cottage, a boy discovers a group of English folk engaged in Devil worship.
English Prisons
Author: Allan BrodiePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1848021828
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For most of us, the prison is an unfamiliar institution and life 'inside' is beyond our experience. However, more than 60,000 people now live in our gaols, some serving their sentences in buildings with Victorian or more ancient origins, others in prisons dating from the last twenty years. 'English Prisons: An Architectural History' is the result of the first systematic written and photographic survey of prisons since the early 20th century. It traces the history of the purpose-built prison and its development over the past 200 years. Over 130 establishments that make up the current prison estate and over 100 former sites that have surviving buildings or extensive documentation have been investigated, institutions ranging from medieval castles and military camps to country houses that have been taken over and adapted for penal use. The Prison Service granted the project team unprecedented access to all its establishments, allowing the compilation of an archive of more than 5,000 images ad 250 research files. The team was allowed to go anywhere, to photograph almost anything (except where this could compromise security) and to speak to any inmate. A selection of the images from the archive illustrates this book.
Report of the Committee
Author: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author: Angela Y. DavisPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801040
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.