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qqqqqqqqqqqqRESEARCH PROPOSAL/OUTLINE.

1. TOPIC – Architectural elements that affect Prison Psychology.

2. AIM & OBJECTIVES – To analyse the effects of architectural elements like


materials, colours, quality of spaces, heights, ventilation and barriers on
psychology. Analysing the effects of these elements on inmates.

3. SCOPE AND LIMITATION – The scope of this research paper shall


elaborate of the effect’s architectural elements like materials, colours,
ventilation, heights, confinement, quality of spaces, etc. has on a
prisoner during their time in a prison. This paper will not mention any
experimental or case study data.

4. LIST OF PARAMETERS/ASPECTS FOR CASE STUDY (BACKGROUND DATA)

 LIST OF PARAMETERS – Passages, entries, seating spaces,


confinement of certain spaces, visual connection across multiple
floors, enclosures, “possession” of spaces, etc.
 Architecture also helps in nurturing any individual mentally, thus
considering a statistic of repeat offenders of modern
contemporary prison will be considered.
 Different types of spatial planning with respect to locations and
intensity of confinements will also be discussed.

5. IDENTIFIED LIVE AND BOOK CASE STUDIES OR ANY OTHER IDENTIFIED


METHOD FOR PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION
 BOOKS - “Psychology in Prisons – David A Crighton”, articles by
“Michael Declare”.
 EXPERIMENT - “The Stanford Prison Experiment”.
 MOVIES – “Escape Plan”, “Shawshank Redemption”, “The Green
Mile”, “The Experiment”.
 PAPERS –

MRUNMAYEE PARKHE
FOURTH YEAR DIVISION-B
RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE – II
TOPIC- ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS THAT EFFECT PRISON PSYCHOLOGY.
o “The History and Future of Prison Psychology”- David Bierie
& Ruth Mann.
o “When Prisoners Take Over the Prison: A Social Psychology
of Resistance”- S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D.
Reicher.
o “Standards for Psychology in Jails, Prisons, Correctional
Facilities, and Agencies”- American Association for
Correctional Psychology.
o “The Contemporary Model of Prison Architecture: Spatial
Response to the Re-Socialization Programme”- Alenka
Fikfak, Saja Kosanović, Mia Crnič and Vasa J. Perović.
o “Prison, Architecture and Social Growth: Prison as an Active
Component of the Contemporary City”- Luigi Vessella.
o “The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison. The
goal of the Norwegian penal system is to get inmates out of
it”- Jessica Benko.

MRUNMAYEE PARKHE
FOURTH YEAR DIVISION-B
RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE – II
TOPIC- ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS THAT EFFECT PRISON PSYCHOLOGY.

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