Prison design and the way that effects inmate's behaviour has been looked at by a number of psychologists and some interesting results looking at a range of topics have been found.

... Prison design A) Prison design and the way that effects inmate's behaviour has been looked at by a number of psychologists and some interesting results looking at a range of topics have been found. Gilbert (1972) looked at movement within the prison and found that the inmate restriction of movement is more important than cell size. The inmates can content themselves with small sleeping areas, if they are able to engage in a variety of activities in more than one setting throughout the day. Cox, Paulus and McCain (1984) it's looked at aggression and found high correlations between prison density and innate aggression. In one prison they found that a 30 per cent decrease in density resulted in a 60 per cent decrease in assaults, and that a 20 per cent increase in density resulted in a 36 per cent increase in assaults. Similar results were found by Rubach and Carr (1984). However

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