This thesis presents the first empirical study into the accommodation needs of Australian Aboriginal prisoners in prison custody. The over-representation of Aboriginal people in the Australian prison system is increasing and the continuing deaths of Aboriginal peoples in prison custody by suicide are an important national issue. Previous prison studies have not addressed all of the issues surrounding this problem. Although the varying and differing accommodation needs of Aboriginal prisoners have been recognised since the 1800s, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between the prison environment and the rates of suicide among Aboriginal prisoners. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the issues and present findings which may contribute to the creation of prison environments which reduce stress levels, and may in turn decrease rates of suicide among Aboriginal prisoners. The research investigates the prison environment for the Aboriginal prisoner from a people-environments approach, locates the act of suicide among a series of behaviours which may occur in response to an environment incongruent with the needs of users. These responses are influenced by a complex of personal, environmental and institutional factors. Data for the research was gathered by studying five South Australian prisons and conducting a series of interviews with 55 male Aboriginal prisoners incarcerated within them. The prisons were documented using observations, interviews with staff and prisoners, photographic surveys and environmental walkthroughs. Both the accommodation standards, and the responsibility to provide those standards by the Department for Correctional Services (South Australia), are examined. The needs and preferences of the subject group were investigated using a three-stage interview process which included gathering personal and incarceration profiles, a forced choice experiment employing photographic sets and a number of drawing exercises to elicit design preferences. The results present a picture of the Aboriginal prison population in South Australia and their design needs. It shows that there are commonalities among the Aboriginal prisoner population in that they are relatively young, have relatively large numbers of children and are dependent on other family members for stability outside the prison environment. Aboriginal people display non-complaint and resistance behaviours and are consequently segregated at an alarming rate in South Australian prisons. The research identifies that prison environments in South Australia are often incongruent with the needs of Aboriginal prisoners. The thesis presents the argument for prison environments to move from being designed within philosophies of segregation and separation to recognising the importance of Aboriginal domiciliary practices, lifestyles structured around the social group and the need to maintain connections to country for all Aboriginal prisoners. The need for prison environments to take into account the identity and spirituality of Aboriginal prisoners is highlighted. The thesis yields further understandings on the design of prison environments for Aboriginal prisoners and will stimulate debate on incarcerating Aboriginal people in a Western tradition. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1330992 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, 2008

Aboutissement d'un mouvement réformateur initié depuis le milieu du XVIIIe siècle, l'avènement de la prison pour peine après la Révolution française, entraîne une redéfinition de l'architecture carcérale, dès lors érigée en programme architectural autonome. A travers l'exemple des prisons successivement aménagées et édifiées à Paris et dans le département de la Seine au XIXe siècle, qu'il s'agisse de bâtiments réaffectés ou de constructions ex nihilo, la présente étude s'intéresse à l'évolution des formes au regard des ajustements opérés sur la période en matière de politique pénale et de régime d'enfermement. Placés sous les yeux des décideurs, visités sans relâche, les établissements pénitentiaires de la capitale représentent en effet un formidable laboratoire d'expérimentations préalables à une généralisation à l'échelle nationale. L'analyse est centrée sur le travail de l'architecte constructeur de prison et s'articule, après une présentation détaillée du cadre administratif et des procédures, autour des contraintes fortes et multiples, parfois contradictoires, du programme. Puisque la prison, ville dans la ville, entreprend de reproduire derrière des murs tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne d'un grand nombre d'individus, il s'agit de voir comment l'architecture pénitentiaire met en jeu et tente de plier à ses contraintes propres presque l'ensemble des typologies architecturales communes, du logement à l'atelier, de l'hôpital à l'église, de l'école à la caserne, représentant un véritable défi pour l'architecte. Au-delà de la simple étude de cas, cette thèse se veut ainsi un matériau pour une future histoire générale de l'architecture pénitentiaire en France / In the wake of a reformatory drive initiated back in the middle of the 18th century, prisons erected after the French Revolution are the results of a redefinition of prison architecture, henceforth a fully fledged architectural programme in its own right. Taking as an example the prisons successively fitted our or built in Paris and in the Seine department in the 19th century, wether reset or built from scratch, the present study deals with the history of designs as a result of the development of penal policies during that period and with regard to confinement regulations. Under the vigilant gaze of decison markers, and regularly inspected, the penitentiary institutions in the capital city represent an outstanding laboratory for experimenting the measures to be later implemented nationwide. This analysis concentrates on the work of the architect responsible for building prisons ; it starts out with a detailed presentation of the administrative framework and procedures centered around the strong and sometimes contradictory requirements of the programme. Since a prison a town within the town, undertakes to reproduce behind its walls all the aspects of the daily life of a large number of individuals, the challenge for prison architecture and architects consists in using and trying to fit to its own constraint practically all common architectural typologies, from lodgins to workshop, from hospitals to church, from school to barracks. Beyond a simple case study, the present thesis is designed to inform a future general history of prison architecture in France

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:21:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiana Nunes de Oliveira Silva.pdf: 2695694 bytes, checksum: 308c4eb88f094a01522f92e78704541c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-20 / Research about the way of using a territory for the execution of penalties and impacts caused by prison buildings located at municipalities of the state inland. Discuss the infractions and penalties applied at Brazilian territory on colonial, imperial and republican period, with the use of prison buildings for this. They are presented, after that, the history of prison architecture at Brazil, with the contextualization of first model of prison building, the creation of Brazilian Penitentiary System and its new buildings, according to sanitarian urbanism, emphasizing the plea of progressive urbanism, with the Carandiru and the paradigm shift that this one caused on the order of penalty execution, causing the desterritorializa??o of violator individual. The demolishment of the biggest prison of Latin America urges the state to build several new prisons on interior paulista territory, without a prior urban planning, truly prison-cities are created, leading to conclude the importance of urban planning for first measure and then sanction the impacts and the socioeconomic problematic. / Pesquisa sobre as formas de utiliza??o do territ?rio para o cumprimento de penas e impactos causados por edif?cios prisionais localizados nos munic?pios paulistas. Discute-se primeiramente as infra??es e penas praticadas no territ?rio brasileiro no per?odo colonial, imperial e por fim o republicano com a utiliza??o dos edif?cios prisionais para tal. Apresentam-se em seguida a hist?ria da arquitetura prisional no Brasil com a contextualiza??o do primeiro modelo de edif?cio prisional, a cria??o do Sistema Penitenci?rio brasileiro e suas novas edifica??es de acordo com o urbanismo sanitarista, ressaltando o fundamento do urbanismo progressista com o complexo Carandiru e a mudan?a de paradigma que este gera na ordem de cumprimento das penas, provocando a desterritorializa??o do indiv?duo infrator. A fal?ncia do at? ent?o maior pres?dio da Am?rica Latina incita o Estado a construir diversos novos pres?dios em territ?rios do interior paulista, sem um planejamento urbano pr?vio, verdadeiras cidades-pres?dio s?o criadas, levando a concluir a import?ncia do planejamento urbano para previamente medir e posteriormente sancionar os impactos e as problem?ticas s?cio-econ?micas.

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / A prisoner who's behaviour is causing a security risk for his fellow prisoners, has to be separated from the rest of the prison population. His aggressive and violent attitude as well as his rejection of authority will lead to his incarceration at a super. maximum institution. The purpose of this thesis is to give a theoretical explanation on super maximum imprisonment. Aspects as prison architecture, the handling of the super maximum prisoner, the purpose and function of a super maximum prison and unit management as a form of prison management are observed. The subject is explained from a penological perspective. / Gevangenes wie se optrede 'n sekuriteits-risiko vir ander gevangenes inhou, moet apart aangehou word. Hul aggressiewe en gewelddadige optrede, asook hul verwerping van gesag veroorsaak dat hul na 'n super maksimum gevangenis verwys word, waar hul slegs vir die minimum voorregte kwalifiseer. Met hierdie proefskrif word daar gepoog om 'n teoretiese uiteensetting ten opsigte van die super maksimum gevangenis te verleen. Aspekte wat onder andere die aandag geniet is gevangenisargitektuur, die hantering van die super maksimum gevangene binne inrigtingsverband, die doel en funksie van 'n super maksimum gevangenis en eenheidsbestuur as mees geskikte bestuursvorm. Die doel word vanuit 'n bepaalde oogpunt nagestreef, naamlik die penologiese perspektief. / Penology / D. Litt. et Phil.(Penology)

Research into unit management in prisons was necessitated by a need to change the way in which South Africa deals with prisoners. The lack of respect for human dignity, poor control in prisons before and after demilitarisation and the need to reduce crime in South Africa are some of the reasons why the study became important. Topics addressed include the role of architecture in corrections, direct supervision to enhance active custody, renewed emphasis on individuals by means of case management and decentralised delivery of development and treatment programmes. Apart from the aspects mentioned above, the philosophy of unit management is spelled out. Imprisonment in countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa and the United States of America is discussed against the background of the unit management philosophy. During any process of incarceration, documentation forms an integral part of the process. In this study, the researcher discussed those documents that could play an important role in unit management. The importance of unit management in prisons cannot be overemphasised. The investigation contributes largely to scientific knowledge in that the importance of sentence planning for each individual within the Criminal Justice System is emphasised. Individual case plans, active involvement from both the inmate and the correctional official and the positive role of prison design are aspects that should form part of all new generation prison systems. / Penology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Penology)

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / A prisoner who's behaviour is causing a security risk for his fellow prisoners, has to be separated from the rest of the prison population. His aggressive and violent attitude as well as his rejection of authority will lead to his incarceration at a super. maximum institution. The purpose of this thesis is to give a theoretical explanation on super maximum imprisonment. Aspects as prison architecture, the handling of the super maximum prisoner, the purpose and function of a super maximum prison and unit management as a form of prison management are observed. The subject is explained from a penological perspective. / Gevangenes wie se optrede 'n sekuriteits-risiko vir ander gevangenes inhou, moet apart aangehou word. Hul aggressiewe en gewelddadige optrede, asook hul verwerping van gesag veroorsaak dat hul na 'n super maksimum gevangenis verwys word, waar hul slegs vir die minimum voorregte kwalifiseer. Met hierdie proefskrif word daar gepoog om 'n teoretiese uiteensetting ten opsigte van die super maksimum gevangenis te verleen. Aspekte wat onder andere die aandag geniet is gevangenisargitektuur, die hantering van die super maksimum gevangene binne inrigtingsverband, die doel en funksie van 'n super maksimum gevangenis en eenheidsbestuur as mees geskikte bestuursvorm. Die doel word vanuit 'n bepaalde oogpunt nagestreef, naamlik die penologiese perspektief. / Penology / D. Litt. et Phil.(Penology)

Research into unit management in prisons was necessitated by a need to change the way in which South Africa deals with prisoners. The lack of respect for human dignity, poor control in prisons before and after demilitarisation and the need to reduce crime in South Africa are some of the reasons why the study became important. Topics addressed include the role of architecture in corrections, direct supervision to enhance active custody, renewed emphasis on individuals by means of case management and decentralised delivery of development and treatment programmes. Apart from the aspects mentioned above, the philosophy of unit management is spelled out. Imprisonment in countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa and the United States of America is discussed against the background of the unit management philosophy. During any process of incarceration, documentation forms an integral part of the process. In this study, the researcher discussed those documents that could play an important role in unit management. The importance of unit management in prisons cannot be overemphasised. The investigation contributes largely to scientific knowledge in that the importance of sentence planning for each individual within the Criminal Justice System is emphasised. Individual case plans, active involvement from both the inmate and the correctional official and the positive role of prison design are aspects that should form part of all new generation prison systems. / Penology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Penology)