Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Handbook of London

  • Disciplinary architecture: prison design and prisoners’ health

    Niyi AwofesoPerth, Australia “First we shape our buildings; then they shape us”Winston Churchill, 1943 Creating the built environment, the surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, draws on multiple disciplines, including architecture and law. Prisons and their many variants are built environments whose intended purpose is punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation and incapacitation (Reasons & Kaplan,…