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Rehabilitative Architecture’s Sociological Impact: Transforming Treatment for the Imprisoned Mentally Ill

Metzner, Bailey M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428047011

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2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Research has shown that the physical environment in which treatment occurs impacts both the treatment’s progression and its effectiveness. Today, prisons have become the involuntary, unconventional home for the imprisoned mentally ill. Though there are facilities for mental health care, there is not a specialized, unique location for those that are serving time. Studies by Perkins and Will, Gerald Landsberg, Marjorie Rock and several others have evaluated the effects of psycho-environmental design and found positive results that demonstrate desirable behavioral changes due to appropriate treatment conditions. Concurrently, the stiff, authoritative nature of prison schemes are being reevaluated. It has been proven that an environment that more clearly mimics real-world conditions produces less recidivism and resentment amongst inmates. Even with current reforms to prison and health care institutions, the changes do not provide an adequate environment to promote rehabilitation and manageable treatment options, while taking into account the humane control and security of this unique sub-group. The lack of specialized space leads to placelessness within these institutions, de-emphasizes social obligations and architectural responses, and underutilizes the effectiveness of the relationship between building and user. This thesis offers humane design techniques found within the changing models of psycho-environmental facilities and prison designs as a way to create a new building typology that focuses on the needs of this specific group in society.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
72 p.
Architecture
imprisoned mentally ill; asylum; prison; sociology of architecture; humane

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  • Metzner, B. M. (2015). Rehabilitative Architecture’s Sociological Impact: Transforming Treatment for the Imprisoned Mentally Ill [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428047011

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Metzner, Bailey. Rehabilitative Architecture’s Sociological Impact: Transforming Treatment for the Imprisoned Mentally Ill. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428047011.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Metzner, Bailey. "Rehabilitative Architecture’s Sociological Impact: Transforming Treatment for the Imprisoned Mentally Ill." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428047011

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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