What works across our prisons to increase safety and security and reduce levels of violence?
Background
We want to provide decent, safe and secure accommodation that supports individuals in their rehabilitation. We want to reduce levels of violence and self-harm and develop the evidence on what structures and interventions can help improve outcomes for individuals in prison.
Next steps
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Design tools for healthy prison environments
Matter Architecture is leading a project to develop a set of design tools for improving rehabilitation through the architecture of prison environments. Together with Space Works we are connecting evidence from the field ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on designing tools for healthy prison environments to improve rehabilitation outcomes, which directly addresses the question of increasing safety and security and reducing violence in prisons.
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"Fear-suffused environments" or potential to rehabilitate? Prison architecture, design and technology and the lived experience of carceral spaces
This research investigates developments in the design of prisons, exploring the propositions that punishment is manifested architecturally, that 'good' prison design need not cost any more than 'bad' design, that archite...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates the impact of prison architecture, design, and technology on prisoners' emotional and psychological reactions to incarceration, which partially addresses the question of increasing safety and security and reducing levels of violence.
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The "Rehabilitation Prison": An oxymoron or an opportunity to radically reform imprisonment?
Prisons are experiencing numerous problems: rising numbers, 'new' populations requiring specialised care (e.g. elderly men, military veterans); an ageing and dilapidated estate that spatially exacerbates effects of overc...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project examines the extent to which a designated 'Rehabilitation Prison' can deliver on its promise of rehabilitation, which partially addresses the question of increasing safety and security and reducing levels of violence.