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Design Resource File - Planning Justice Facilities, 1980

NCJ Number
72702
Date Published
1980
Length
95 pages
Annotation
This 1980 design resource file is prepared by the Committee on Architecture for Justice to aid practicing architects in designing law enforcement, court, juvenile justice, and correctional facilities according to the new standards which require more humane facilities.
Abstract
In assembling this resource file, the committee has endeavored to set forth planning considerations and guidelines to review and summarize the resources and list the published material for corrections, law enforcement, the courts, and juvenile justice. The background of the new standards is presented in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Task Force on Correctional Architecture report of July 14, 1972, and the AIA justice system policy statement of December 7, 1979. Guidelines for the justice planning process indicate the approach that an architect working with an agency or community group might use. Successive stages of the planning process involve (1) establishing a philosophy, or choosing one or a combination of the regulatory, psychogenic ('patient'), or sociogenic models with which to respond to crime and delinquency; (2) determining service area characteristics and criminal sanction status; (3) analyzing needs; and (4) analyzing resources. Other steps are determining the context for action, determining the program, developing space and a functional program, and developing a conceptual facility plan. Plannning of the law enforcement court, correctional, and juvenile justice facilities, including planning data and resources (agency profiles) is discussed; bibliographies are presented. In addition, the directory of 1979 justice facilities, the 1979 publications list of the American Medical Association to improve medical care and health services and a discussion of professional liability in the design of criminal justice facilities are appended.