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Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
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Rory Sutherland: When the gain is greater than the loss
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
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Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Public interest: data and the BBC
Rory Sutherland: When the gain is greater than the loss
Expansion: The Growing Pain of Behavioral Science
Impact Magazine is a quarterly magazine for MRS members. You can access the Impact content on this website.
Award features innovation people's public sector well-being
Professor Jukes was awarded the MRS Presidential Medal in 2021 for his work on how to reform prison design instead of punishing criminals.
When selecting the winner, MRS Jan Gooding President said: “This is a very challenging industry. However, Professor Zhukes transformed her findings into progressive actions, changing people’s thinking and creating a framework for hope. Provided information."
This interview was first published in the "2022 Research Field Industry Report".
You described how design helped transform the prison from a place of punishment into a "healing environment"-what does it mean? Despite all the solid research evidence that prisons cause harm to some of the most disadvantaged members of society, there is still a general assumption that prisons must feel like places of suffering and deprivation. Throughout my career, I have supported Maggie's cancer care center and encouraged prison architects to reflect on the values they contain, which were summed up by their co-founder Charles Jenks as "buildings of hope". We should do more for crime victims and potential future victims, not just warehouse prisoners. Almost all people currently in prison will be released into society.
I always tell doubters, who do you prefer to live next door to you? People treated with dignity in an environment that helps heal them and instill hope for their future? Or is it someone who has been in a cage and has been cruelly tortured for many years?
What evidence is there that prison design has a positive impact on rehabilitation? My research has found many examples of positive effects on prison design, but another way to conceptualize it is to look at the recidivism rate. In the UK, nearly 50% of people who have been in prison will commit a crime again (in some prisons, this percentage is as high as 75-80%). For example, Norway is internationally renowned for its imaginative and humane prison buildings (such as Halden), with a recidivism rate of 22-25%.
How accepted are the prisoners and prison staff for interviews? What are the key qualities of a good prison researcher? Most prisoners are happy to accept it because they like to participate in research-it's a break from the routine, different faces, people who are interested in them and their stories. Staff often face time pressure, but they usually think it is a pleasant experience. Key qualities-patience, empathy, humanity.
You have written about the value of communicating emotions in prison research—is there a risk that it does not seem so scientific, especially in this era of big data? My research has nothing to do with "science" or "big data". This is a story about humans trying to survive in difficult and suffocating environments. Writing the emotional structure of any research investigation requires nuanced thinking and careful writing, but the themes that underpin my work—authority, power, guilt, injustice, violence, pain, anger, sadness, and shame—can’t be ignored—handling emotions In their most distinctive form, I think my duty is to represent these aspects of life in prison.
Does a good design cost more? Is this a real obstacle or a perception obstacle? A good design does not cost more than a bad design.
Can you give a concrete example to illustrate the insights that your research has produced that can help change previous thorny views on prison reform? When I first presented my research to the British Ministry of Justice, we talked about the bar on the window. I have been told that although horizontal bars can be used on the windows of women’s and children’s cells (allowing a better view), it is important to use vertical bars to indicate punishment in men’s prisons. I presented research evidence showing that green space landscapes are beneficial to mentality and health, which has promoted a great change in high-level thinking. For the first time in British criminal history, the new prison currently under construction in this country has no window railings at all.
A few years ago, you described this period as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to replace dilapidated prisons around the world with prisons designed for transformation. Did this happen? Of course not in England and Wales. We are heading in the wrong direction, building more and larger prisons to hold more and more people, many of whom can be handled more effectively outside the criminal justice system. Some of our neighbors do better. For example, Scotland abandoned plans to build a 300-bed women’s prison (a large prison in the case of 400 female prisoners) and instead built a 50-bed national facility and five 20-bed areas unit.
What is your most proud professional achievement? I participated in the new women's prison in Limerick, Ireland. I hope that when it opens in the summer of 2022, it will be comparable to the best facilities in Scandinavia and become a beautiful, peaceful, and creative place where women can take control of their lives and build a better place. glorious future. The current Limerick prison was described as regrettable in the 2003 inspection report.
When the Irish Prison Service (IPS) had begun to draft a plan for the new facility, I was taken to this project to replace it-a prison with a "soft" edge, but mainly a prison without architectural empathy for the prisoners. Prisons. I encourage them to be bolder and bolder in their ideas, and imagine what the architecture of women’s hopes in Irish prisons looks like. I persuaded IPS to hold a design competition, which is more common in parts of Northern Europe. The winning design designed by PJ Hegarty was a radical departure and was unusually the second most expensive submission, emphasizing design innovation, not cost, and was given priority.
IPS’s commitment shows that Limerick is not just a one-off experiment, and through long-term and deep participation in my research, IPS has begun to treat prisons as a potentially transformative environment that can affect the lives and future of traumatized people. positive influence. And convict women. You can read more about it and watch a three-minute video here that shows my investment in the design of the new prison.
What are your favorite examples of buildings outside the penalty system? I like Art Deco style buildings. Whether it’s houses, movie theaters, factories like London’s Ealing Hoover Building, or hospitals like Finland’s Paimio Nursing Home, it’s all designed by Alvar Aalto. It has The charm of the ocean liner, and it is Gesamtkunstwerk-a complete work of art. Every detail from door handles to lighting to furniture is imagined and designed by Aalto and customized to maximize patient comfort and emotional well-being .
What is your dream project? Limerick is my dream job because of the generosity and conviction that IPS has shown in me. But what I really want to see is: a substantial reduction in the number of prisoners (the population of most prisons can be halved without adversely affecting the crime rate); the closure of aging prisons that are no longer suitable for use; and the suspension of current construction plans, these The plan will put people in prisons the same as those designed by their predecessors in the 19th century. Then I want to participate in the design of a small number of humane and progressive institutions, with a focus on meaningful work, training and education, as well as opportunities for artistic and creative pursuits.
I just wrote an article advocating the introduction of feminist values into women’s prisons. I really want to work on that project.
The interview was published in the 2022 Research Field Industry Report, which includes the MRS rankings.
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